Report about the holiday party for Groningen schoolchildren, held on the moors near Rolde, on July 19 1923.
Accompanied by a band, a group of Groningen schoolchildren head for the train station, and then travel to Rolde in Drenthe, where they will spend the day on the moor. In Drenthe, the children play in the sand, and act out a boxing match between the champions Battling Siki and Georges Carpentier. At the end of the day, everyone returns contentedly to Groningen.
Documentary about tourist attractions in the Netherlands.
Promotional film for the Alhambra Theater in Vlissingen.
Promotional film of the Alhambra in Vlissingen, where visitors to the theatre could win fifty guilders if they recognized the people who appeared in the film. Theatres of that period used creative solutions like this to attract audiences.
Compilation film consisting of urban scenes, journeys along rivers, images of everyday life, and portraits of people dressed in traditional costume.
A plumber comes to the home of a business man to do some work and sees the man counting his money. When the business man is suddenly called away and no-one can find the keys of the safe, his wife decides to lock the money in a cabinet in her bedroom, something the plumber observes. That night he returns to the house and, from an adjoining room, saws a hole in the wall and the back of the cabinet and reaches out his hand to steal the money.Luckily, the wife has been disturbed in her sleep by the noise.
Short film about children on Marken.
Working footage of a royal visit to Groningen.
In 1922, Queen Wilhelmina, Prince Henry and Princess Juliana visited Groningen. Filmmaker Willy Mullens shot diverse footage of the event, showing the royal family riding through the city, attending church services, and visiting a gathering on an athletic field. Mullens also filmed a blind girl offering flowers to the Queen.
The filmmaker himself – with camera in hand – also briefly appears in the frame.
Reportage about the Queen’s Celebrations in Steenwijk.
Reportage about the celebration of 25 years of Queen Wilhelmina's rule, on September 8 and 9, 1923, in Helmond.
Reportage about a Saint Nicholas party for children in the Jordaan.