Lustrum festival by Amsterdam students, contests for delivery bicycles, fun fair, pierement party

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Lustrum festival by Amsterdam students, contests for delivery bicycles, fun fair, pierement party

Week number 47-27

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Sev. festivities organised by students from Amsterdam to celebrate their lustrum. SHOTS: - young men are racing with delivery bicycles and container bicycles through the streets of Amsterdam; - a huge group of students visiting a fun fair; many children on the crowded fun fair riding the merry-go-around, the air swing, etc. ; - A contest of small organs is being held on the Frederiksplein; a jury is driving about the organs to judge the performances; one of the jurors, Eduard van Beium (choirmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra), is demonstrating his own skill in organ swinging; 2'28 Van Beinum.

Creator:: Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Publication date:: 28 June 1947
Length:: 02:34

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