Introducing 🇧🇪 Belgium | The Atlantic Community Series | NATO Documentary | 1955

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  • The film presents Belgium's history and contribution to the Atlantic Community.
    It successively shows the cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent, the Belgian historical and cultural heritage, the dense railway network, trade activities in Belgium, including commerce with the Belgian Congo, and the importance of the textile and railway industries.
    The story concludes on the crucial place of Belgium as an international center in the Atlantic Community.
    "Introducing Belgium" is part of a series originally designed as "Know your Allies", and finally titled "the Atlantic Community Series".
    Its objectives were to familiarize public opinion in each of the member country with the other Alliance members and to emphasize the national contributions to Western culture and political traditions, economic reconstruction and allied defense in the framework of NATO.
    The series was produced between 1954 and 1956 and financed by the US government in the context of the Marshall Plan with the cooperation of the Information Service of NATO, and distributed by NATO. The films in the Atlantic Community Series received large non-theatrical distribution and, in some cases, were shown in cinemas and on TV. Language versions were made and distributed with the help of the national governments.
    “My country and NATO” tells the story of each one of NATO’s members, using a selection of unique archival materials to take you back in time.
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    Staff:
    director: Emile Degelin
    director: Ytzen Brusse
    assistant director: Armand Van Coppenolle
    script: Chester K. Sherburne
    script: Emile Degelin
    camera: Prosper Dekeukeleire
    music: Else Van Epen de Groot
    narrator: Robert Beatty
    sound: Will Huender

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  • @Migmaw
    @Migmaw ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Part of my heritage and where my last name comes from. My dream is to visit one day and see where my grandfather came from. My great Grandfather fled Belgium just before the Germans invaded in WW1 my grandfather was 7yrs old, my great grandfather worked in Sydney mines cape Breton Nova Scotia until a mine collapse took his life, my grandfather also went to work in the mines at 11yrs old the men would carry his lunchbox because he was so small 😂. My Belgian grandfather married my Scottish grandmother and had my Canadian 1st generation dad who joined the airforce as a fighter mechanic for the korean war my uncles all served in ww2. My dad fell in love with my raven black haired Mi'kmaq mother who had me a first nations man with European influence 😂

  • @geeache1891
    @geeache1891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    "the majority of the people speak the two languages", funny

    • @tmsupreme7763
      @tmsupreme7763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah only flemish isn't aa language, it's a dialect of dutch.

    • @timvanrijn8239
      @timvanrijn8239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those being the flemish. The walloon ussualy do not

    • @taxandria1941
      @taxandria1941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think more Flemings speak French while the most Walloons don't speak Dutch (Flemish)

    • @Taxents
      @Taxents 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@taxandria1941 This is true

    • @matthings4133
      @matthings4133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@taxandria1941 well it used to be both after the 1930s but now it isnt obligatory anymore in wallonia

  • @TheFCBZOT
    @TheFCBZOT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Best country in the world

    • @Redisia
      @Redisia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      As a northern neighbor that lives close the Belgium border. I must admit I love Belgium as much as the Netherlands :) Lovely people and on top of that lovely fries

  • @koksalceylan9032
    @koksalceylan9032 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Belgium the best little gentile art and culture loving intelligent Nation i get to know and love it so much. Groetjes van Antwerpen to all people on Earth.

    • @dirkrossey558
      @dirkrossey558 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Groeten terug van Sydney naar julie allemaal in Antwerpen...

  • @deviekes
    @deviekes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Proud to be Belgian

  • @boceskia
    @boceskia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Antwerp is only 20 minutes away from Brussels by helicopter. That's useful information for most travellers :-) ... Nice documentary.

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Today, by car and by motorway, it's 30 minutes to an hour. If you are lucky.
      Let's not mention my record of 15 minutes, that was before they invented traffic cameras.

  • @fredrikcarlstedt393
    @fredrikcarlstedt393 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pretty sure that Hercule Poirot would have approved of this magnificent scenery.

    • @robertneven7563
      @robertneven7563 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hahahahaha indeed Hecule

  • @marionhanke4742
    @marionhanke4742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Thank you for this interesting report.
    A country grows with its people, and I think Belgium is great because of all the wonderful, intelligent Belgian People.Take care everyone, I will come back and learn more from you when Corona allows it.

    • @Nebo8ful
      @Nebo8ful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dont forget to taste our mighty collection of beer and of course our legendaries fries :D

    • @Thatguyy100
      @Thatguyy100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very nice of you to say and you're always welcome. But boy I wish I could agree on all belgian people being intelligent.

  • @kaynedemeire634
    @kaynedemeire634 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    belguim is a crazy country in a good way i am belgiam my self
    ik hou van frieten
    j'aime les frites

  • @Heya540
    @Heya540 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you forget the German language in Belgium

  • @stejer211
    @stejer211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lol @ groententuintjes op 10:04.

  • @OkayGrimmy
    @OkayGrimmy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    if only our government was centralised again and people could set aside their ego for a second.

    • @juststop9379
      @juststop9379 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's not just your government
      THATS THE WORLD!

    • @pisceanboy13
      @pisceanboy13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No, federalism is better. This is Belgium, not France.

    • @blanco7726
      @blanco7726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Got the second part right, but needs to happen without centralisation

  • @mrpeel3239
    @mrpeel3239 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No mention of the Belgian-German minority!

  • @franklinchenfranklin4840
    @franklinchenfranklin4840 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i was born in Brussels Belgium in October 2001 and i love my hometown in Belgium

  • @tmsupreme7763
    @tmsupreme7763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    🇳🇱♥️🇧🇪

  • @maidaerdenhout
    @maidaerdenhout 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It is the Burgundian way of life

  • @nobbel65
    @nobbel65 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I speak East-Belgian very good, North-Belgian quite good, but hardly any South-Belgian.

  • @sorane8910
    @sorane8910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A wonderfull era

  • @zildaemanuel5001
    @zildaemanuel5001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    THANK YOU FOR SHARING HOW 🤔 VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE ATHANTIC BELGIUM ALLIES FORCES TOGETHER WITH UK VERY INTERESTING ALL THE ALLIES BELGIUM CONNECTION 🇧🇪

  • @AKAHEIZER
    @AKAHEIZER 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sehr schöner Film, ich finde solche historischen Aufnahmen immer wieder faszinierend anzusehen, teilweise natürlich auch viel Propaganda dabei, aber diese ist doch sehr zurückhaltend und eine beeindruckende Bildqualität. 🇧🇪♥️

  • @rummy9337
    @rummy9337 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    🇬🇭🤝🇧🇪

  • @matthings4133
    @matthings4133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah a pity about the brusselization period... such wonderful architecture lost

  • @rolandalexander741
    @rolandalexander741 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting

  • @Qtchicky12345678
    @Qtchicky12345678 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interesting to learn about what knowledge they had on Belgium at the time. Not surprising that they don't mention the atrocities occurring in the Congo and to the Congolese people. I think we are still a long way off any of it being common knowledge. Even today it's being swept under the rug. I still love my country despite our dark past and present because I see the social change that is occurring and I hope it continues on and we acknowledge all the victims. I feel the same way about. this country of my ancestors. Belgium is a fascinating place. Thanks for sharing.

  • @JakeSueldoAnimations
    @JakeSueldoAnimations 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I expected the Congo. and it was.............. here

    • @juststop9379
      @juststop9379 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah
      They glanced over it as expected 👀

    • @blanco7726
      @blanco7726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@juststop9379 doesn’t really influence Belgium

    • @j.langer5949
      @j.langer5949 ปีที่แล้ว

      what of it?