Channel 5 China blog: Netherlands records Cinema Retrospective 2

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Netherlands records Cinema Retrospective 2 - wartime image

by:auess

Netherlands on the record of the second part of the film. A few had been recommended before shooting at the beginning of the last century classical works, and during World War II, the Netherlands is the first by Germany's invasion of one of the countries that many journalists, photographers and even ordinary people with a record of the camera in the fire Cities and the true picture of people's lives, such as the images should be the private sector as part of the history of Dutch documentary was remembered.

"Reportage"is the famous pool and writer Netherlands Bath - Postma in the years 1940-1944 with the simple cameras filming all precious images, a number of clips from a total of 50 minutes, recorded from December 1940 to Amsterdam City was bombed in September 1944 Ein Eindhoven first greeting people when allied tanks temporary joy and hope is a time of war throughout the Netherlands panorama. In addition other three parts in The Hague, Amsterdam and the border town of Roermond shooting, the photographer unknown, shooting time in the 1943-45 year, of which there is a five minute long fragment lens secret hiding behind the curtain shooting, fuzzy picture has been unusually real shock. Part III "Luermengde"significantly under-exposed film, it should be non-professional film of the ordinary people. These age of the film are from private collections, can survive is already difficult. (Part 2: the post-war generation
-- Experimental documentary)