Drenthe is a rural province in the North-East of The Netherlands. Its capital is Assen. The province is among other known for its "hunnebedden" (ancient stone graves), the TT motorraces and its natural beauty.
In this part-1 we visit the egg market in Hoogeveen, an arts & crafts school, a factory for wooden cloggs, the steam tram in Dedemsvaart, a sod hut and workers preparing for the construction of new homes. See the timeline for more details.
Timeline (please help to improve this!):
00:00 Egg market at Hoogeveen
00:18 The local population of Hoogeveen
00:43 Probably the local school
00:50 Domestic services school
01:01 Learning how to pollish shoes
01:18 Arts & Crafts school
01:31 Early lathes
01:34 The woodwork class
01:40 Mechanised factory
01:55 The production of tin cans
02:25 Soldering tin cans
02:32 Tree trunks arrive at the clogs factory of Seijdel-Post
02:47 Plenty of wood for the clogs
02:56 Preparing the wood
03:25 Roughly shaping the wood
03:34 Cutting the cavity for the feet
03:47 Shaping the outside of the clogs
03:54 The final touches
04:01 Close-up of creating the caveties
04:30 Skilled work!
04:38 A steam tram (not a train!) arrives
05:03 Passengers get off the DSM tram
05:10 Loading wood on a lorry belonging to the DSM ("Drentse Stoomtram Maatschappij")
05:24 Steam tram along the canal
05:45 Loading milk canisters onto the tram
05:49 Steam tram crossing a draw bridge
06:08 The church of Oosterhesselen near Coevorden
06:37 Primitive life in a 'sod hut' ('Plaggenhut' in Dutch)
06:44 Made of stacked turf sods
06:49 Rural simply constructed houses
06:55 Typical house in Drenthe
07:05 Poverty was the norm
07:11 A newly constructed neighbourhood through the new turf village of Witteveen
07:16 A brickwork house for the more affluant
07:24 The farmhouse is attached to the living quarters
07:33 A newly built school in the middle of nowhere with separate house for the head teacher
07:43 A more wealthy part of Drenthe
07:50 Young boy wearing clogs with a goat of Harm Smeenge
08:09 Workers preparing land for new construction
08:25 Probably as part of the 'Werkverschaffing" plan for people on the dole
08:37 Removing soil
08:50 This were the early crisis years with wide scale global unemployment
09:12 Linthorst-Homan canal with foundations already laid for new houses, constructed by unemployed workers
09:21 Boat with sailing capability on a canal
09:32 A turning bridge
09:36 Leeboards for stability at the sides of the boat
09:46 Town of Beilen with a windmill near the old harbour
09:54 Filming though a circular mask was popular in these times
09:59 The church at Dwingelo, nicknamed "De Siepel" (meaning "onion")
10:07 The church steeple
10:14 Farms and meadows with sheep
10:22 Oldengaerde 'havezaat', mansion in Westeinde near Dwingelo
10:26 Its surroundings
10:34 The facade of the Oldengaerde
10:43 Overcinge estate of the Queen's Commissioner
10:47 Ploughing the fieldwith two oxes
11:12 An early tire-less tractor!
11:19 With plough
11:36 The end.
This is a series in three parts:
Part-1: • Gezichten van Drenthe ...
Part-2: • Gezichten van Drenthe ...
Part-3: • Gezichten van Drenthe ...
The Music is by Claude Signet
Source B&W footage: Beeld en Geluid.
26 дек 2020