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A Dutch newsreel, including items on the celebration of Princess Wilhelmina's birthday, a demonstration by American yo-yo miracle Willy Panema and a demonstration of Algerian desert riders.

Film about Dutch society at the beginning of the 1960s.

Three families are preparing for an evening of Saint Nicholas cheer. Each of the families is having problems. One couple, an ad agency man and his wife are growing apart. Another, intensely respectable couple is having trouble coping with their wayward son. The husband in the third couple is an incorrigible womaniser who nevertheless tries to patch things up with his wife.

Reportage of the flight demonstrations Rozenoord airfield near Amsterdam.

A crowd swarms on Amsterdam’s Dam Square in front of the horse tram. In the background, we see the outline of Central Station.

Footage of a beach competition for children organized by the newspaper ‘De Telegraaf’, on Tuesday, August 9, 1921.

Advertising Film for the Haarlem Dairy ‘De Sierkan’.

Short film that shows street advertising for various products.

Reportage about the festivities during Dokkum’s ‘shopping week’.

Promotional film for the Passage Bioscoop in Amsterdam.

Reportage about a shop-window contest in Leeuwarden.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the VVV , a shop-window contest was organized in Leeuwarden. In a series of images, this reportage shows the various shop-windows that were entered in the competition. The names of the shopkeepers are mentioned in the intertitles. At the end, we see the jury making their rounds.