Media item

Reopening of the miniature city Madurodam

Week number 54-16

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:19
Publication date:
7 April 1954
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER541-HRE0001DB2F

Reopening of Madurodam after the winter season. With several new buildings, a.o. the George Maduro barracks, a gift of the Ministry of War, for which State Secretary Kranenburg hoists the flag. Also a modern residential area, a beach and a cracking plant for the production of gasoline. On the day of the opening, children liberate Gulliver, who had been captured by Lilliputians.