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Flowers in winter
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Week number 49-02
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
Because of the floriculture in the greenhouses around Aalsmeer it is possible to buy tulips, carnations, hyacinths etc. in the middle of winter. SHOTS: - bare trees; - in the bulb areasthe bulb fields are covered in straw; - in the greenhouses dozens of workers work to pick, collect and wrap the flowers; - at the flower auction the flowers are sold: buyers sit in benches; auction clock; employees of the auction wrap the flowers in airmail boxes; - people buy flowers in a stall (in an wintery street with bare trees).
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Publication date:
- 1 January 1949
- Length:
- 01:42
- Type:
- video
- Original format:
- User:
- Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
