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A Dutch news film with sound, including items on 'Luilak', the swearing of the new government by Queen Juliana and a state visit by the Shah of Persia.

A Dutch newsreel including items on sports divers who are looking for remnants of Brittenburg castle, the Dutch Cinema Association's special gift voucher and a lecture on the evolution of ballet.

A Dutch newsreel including items on the royal visit to Amsterdam and the 40th anniversary of the Dutch Cinema Association.

A Dutch newsreel including items on windmills in the Dutch landscape, and about the Rex cinema in Amsterdam, which welcomes dogs as the audience for the premiere of the film Terug uit het heelal (Zurück aus dem Weltall).

War film based on W.F. Hermans’ De donkere kamer van Damocles, in which a young man meets his double.

Writer W.F. Hermans and director Fons Rademakers shared a fascination with people’s behaviour during the Second World War. The story explores the boundaries between good and bad in wartime.

Jimmy, a racing driver meets Annette, a model from Paris at the Zandvoort circuit.

They both use their work as a means of escape, and during their brief affair neither of the two has the courage to be their true self. The subsequent series of misunderstandings between them causes Annette to decide to return to Paris when her work in Amsterdam is finished. In this process of growth, of reaching maturity, Jimmy loses not only the girl he loves but also his self-assurance, and he has no choice but to abandon his racing career.

Documentary footage of the traffic around the railway viaduct op pasar-besar, around half past one in the afternoon.

Promotional film for the Passage Bioscoop in Amsterdam.

Reportage about the ninth ‘Catholic Day’ in Nijmegen.

This reportage opens with urban images of Nijmegen, including shots of the park Het Valkhof, the St. Stevens Church, and the Waag. These images are followed by the celebration of the ninth ‘Catholic Day’ on September 23, 1917, with shots of people departing from the Roman Catholic church, the procession of various associations to the Monseigneur Hamer monument, and the speech given by Mr. N.H.M. Franken to a large crowd. Wreaths and flowers are placed by the monument. A number of Catholic dignitaries then leave by car or coach.