military

A Dutch newsreel including items on the 41st motor- and bicycle exhibition in the RAI, the 'National Book Week' and a basketball match between the military teams from the Netherlands and Belgium.

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.

A reportage about KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) soldiers carrying out reconnaissance and practice rides by bicycle in the Dutch East Indies.

Reportage about a military sport demonstration.

Soldiers give a sport demonstration in The Hague’s Houtrust Stadium. The film opens with a small group of men doing exercises on bridges, benches, beams and sawhorses. By the end of the film, the group has grown into a sizeable crowd in the middle of the stadium. The soldiers perform synchronized exercises.

Propaganda Film About the Dutch Military.

Holland neutraal (Neutral Holland) is this film’s subtitle, which was meant to show that the Dutch armed forces are very much prepared to guarantee the Netherlands’ neutrality in World War One. The more than 2.5-hour film was made by Willy Mullens in 1917, when other Western European armies had become numbed after three long years in the trenches. The footage in the Army and Navy Film depicts a relatively high-spirited mood, considering how the Dutch military had mobilized but not actually participated in the war.

Reportage about an exercise involving two divisions of the military cyclists brigade.

Two girls meet two soldiers at the beach; after their swim they decide to try on the soldiers' uniforms.