DISCOVERY ’70 TRIP TO BRUSSELS BRUGE BELGIUM LIVES OF BELGIAN CHILDREN XD30762

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This episode of the children's TV show Discovery ’70 compares children’s life experiences in Brussels / Bruge (Belgium) through the days of young girls Giselle and Dorette.
13 y.o. Giselle Vergert in ballet class (0:09). Dorette (young girl) in lace hat; making lace (closeup) (0:18). Streetcar in Brussels (0:24). Giselle (0:26). Dorette double-dutches near stone wall (0:29). Windmill silhouette; title appears: “Discovery goes to Belgium” (0:36). Title sequence, Discovery ’70 with hosts Virginia Gibson and Bill Owen (0:46). Garden with American / Belgian flag flying, hosts (1:13). Zoom on Brussels city hall / town hall. Giselle in ballet class. Girls dance in white leotards as teacher instructs (pole, dance studio, speaking French, various shots) (2:19). Ballet instructor demonstrates at front of room (3:05). Zoom: ballet shoes while dancing. Dorette and sisters (school girls) jump double-dutch in Bruge (3:26). Girls walk in Bruge, pan to nearby windmill. Girls look at windmill, shielding eyes from sun (3:57). Closeup: girl’s face (4:04). Women’s faces in Flemish paintings (4:10). Bruge buildings viewed from boat on canal (“Venice of the North”) (4:28). Ballet class again; closeups: teacher’s face with boy cut hair, ballet teacher, students (4:52). Giselle and other teenage girl (friend) walk through Brussels (urban area-pedestrians), approach outdoor café / restaurant (5:32). Girls sit down at sidewalk café table (5:43). Waiter in uniform approaches with drinks. Closeup: older woman at urban café in Brussels (6:03). Closeup: waiter’s face (6:05). Man sips soda drink (6:07). Sidewalk, table with girls eating sweets, drinking (6:07). Pedestrians in Brussels. Girls shake hands by Brussels fountain and go separate ways (6:27). Hosts by garden again (6:35). Hosts at Belgium Royal Palace entrance (gate) (6:54). Belgian flag atop Belgian Royal Palace, views of parks / grounds (7:10). Belgian Parliament building (7:20). Hosts by old town wall in Brussels, admiring new / old architecture (7:34). Multi (building / tower, “Philips”) (7:45). Skyscrapers by park, memorials, statues (nobleman / craft guilds) (7:50). Gran Plaz in detail, then wide view (8:30). Elaborate architecture in Gran Plaz (view from street). Mariner’s house (8:57). Windmill house (miller’s guild) (9:07). Tin pot (carpenters) (“1697”) (9:14). Hosts by guild houses, woman selling flowers on street, pedestrians (9:25). Brussels town hall (9:36). Orange carnations, various flowers (10:01). Young girl (Giselle) stops to buy flowers for her mother from saleswoman on sidewalk. Giselle walks with flowers on busy pedestrian sidewalk in Brussels (10:28). Enclosed arcade, gallery Saint Hubert (10:45). Giselle walks along looking at store displays (fine china, household items, food). Street in Old Brussels; Petite Rue Des Bouchers (street sign), cobblestone. Giselle enters narrow alley, Theater Toone (11:41). Marionette’s performance of Othello (11:55). Audience (all children) laughing, closeups on children, puppeteers visible through hole in painted curtain, closeups on puppets (puppet Othello, who dies; others, who joke; various closeups of puppet acting / scene) (12:00). Curtain falls on puppet show, children clap (14:00). Puppeteers / puppets on stage waving, then curtain (14:09). Bill / Virginia in front of Theater Toone (stone / arched entrance). Bruge canal: flag, hosts, boat, dock, visitor sign, excursion (14:31). Hosts board boat, begin tour with man in sailor hat (14:55). View from boat: passing boat filled with families (15:31). Passengers duck heads as boat passes under bridge (15:37). Various views of canal, bridges, buildings, streets; hosts amazed. Bus, bikers pass on street (16:00). Dorette on bike on empty street, enters father’s shoemaking shop (shoemaker; closeups) (16:44). Dorette’s mother on doorstep, fixes girls’ lace bonnets (“Flemish national costume”) (17:11). Girls walk to lace making carrying equipment, pass canal, cobblestone, buildings. Older women making lace in alley (18:00). Girls approach, woman instructs (closeup: hands). Lace-maker waves; girls leave. Girls walk on Middle Age enclosure (Beguinage): Benedictine nuns (19:00). Girls make lace by canal near swans (19:35). Swan on canal. Closeup: girls making lace. Bill / Virginia at canal scene in Bruge near girls making lace, boat passes behind (20:21). Hosts by stone buildings advertise books (covers: “Belgium” by Noel B. Gerson, “The Land and People of Belgium” by Dorothy Loder). Credits over views of canal: Produced by Jules Power.
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[@franm.k.5832]

I was there twice when I was a kid. I remember the food was amazing and it was always cloudy and drizzly rain. It reminded me of Germany more than of France except for the food. It was pretty. Just the impressions of a child

[@scotabot7826]

Wow, young ladies who look like actual young ladies. Todays generation sure could learn a lot of great things from the past. The human race was so much better off back then!!

[@timothyhunt1828]

Put your mind into your dream and you can do anything

[@R-Lee-]

My father was a relentlessly self improving boulagerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penshant for buggery...

[@jaminova_1969]

Oh, was he now?

[@trijet200]

Meanwhile in the good ol' USA, we're tearing down our statues representative of our past.

[@janklaas6885]

🇺🇳16:36 new Amsterdam ❓ 😄

[@gkos2566]

Brugge was het epicentrum toen Amsterdam bestond uit drie paalhutten.