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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 Madurodam, about gas and kerosene lamps, and a fashion show in a village in Overijssel.

A Dutch newsreel with sound, including items on the opening of the fourth International Sugar Show in the RAI and the opening of the Expo 58 by King Boudewijn.

A Buick is driving through a summer landscape in Holland. The driver gives two girls, Sandra and Olga, a lift. The latter seduces the man; the former murders him. The village idiot Piet, a woman, has seen everything and later removes the corpse from the parked car.

Film made on the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina’s Golden Jubilee. Five episodes sketch out what life was like in the Netherlands during Queen Wilhelmina’s 50-year reign.

Self-taught film-maker Harry Kümel started his career as scriptwriter for Rik Kuypers and Herman Wuyts. He soon set out shooting films himself, short experimental films (Anna la bonne, after Jean Cocteau), fiction shorts (Tous les parfums de l'Arabie) and documentaries (Uit glas en staal).

Propaganda feature film commissioned by the Algemeene Nederlandsche Zuivelbond (the Duch dairy association).

A farmer and his son cannot agree on whether or not they should join a dairy cooperative. The farmer’s earlier experiences make him sceptical and when his son falls in love with the daughter of the cooperative’s foreman, they fall out. In the end the old farmer gives in. The son joins the cooperative. His father’s conclusion is that it’s his son’s turn now and he should do what he thinks is best.