"It Happened in Holland"
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 6
- Summary
- NoS Summary - A travelogue showing traditional Dutch scenes - windmill, cheese making, etc.
NoS synopsis: "Holland, land of canals, windmills, clogs - and cheeses! And Dutch Girls as busy as beavers." M/S of a Dutch woman in traditional dress walking towards the camera in front of a windmill. She holds the lead of a dog which is attached to a cart holding two milk churns. A boy walks behind guiding the cart. As they pass by, a little boy is revealed to have been walking behind them. The cart is pushed towards some outbuildings. M/S of a woman standing at a large wooden tub. She is making cheese. "Life here is just one cheese after another." C/U of an older woman pushing milk curds into a mould. This is placed with other moulded cheeses. C/U of two women wrapping the cheese in muslin then putting them back in the moulds. "The kind of cheeses that would make good cannon balls, in emergency - " M/S of the balls of cheese all lined up together. M/S of two women painting on wax. M/S of man throwing the cheeses onto a chute, they roll down into the hold of a boat. - Keywords
- Food and cooking; Scenery and travel
- Locations
- Netherlands
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.196
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP196
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 107
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How to cite this record
'"It Happened in Holland"', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 485, 18 Sep 1930. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332531 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)