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Restoration of the "drowned" archives from the disaster area
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Week number 53-12
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
- Type:
- video
- Length:
- 01:25
- Publication date:
- 1 March 1953
- User:
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Source:
- WEEKNUMMER531-HRE0000D50F
During the North Sea flood of 1953 paper archives were destroyed or heavily damaged and dirty. Employees of a specialized company restore the preserved or saved remainders of these archives by brushing them of in a cleansing liquid and then drying them with heating equipment.
