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Flooding

Week number 28-27

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

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The breaching of a dike causes the flooding of farmland near Ridderkerk and Barendrecht. SHOTS: -Man and boy look at big hole in the dike 7"; -pan across the expanse of water with halfway flooded houses in it 14"; -man closes hatch of flooded house from a boat and sails away 12"; -breached railway with remainder of rails and junk; in the background railway station 12"; -man sails away from flooded house in a boat filled with furniture, a.o. chairs 15"; -workers put formwork near the dike 8"+5".

Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Publication date:
31 October 1928
Length:
01:15

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Type:
video
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User:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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