Unique footage of the Kingdom of The Netherlands before 1930 in color! [AI enhanced & colorized]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2021
- This film shows the Northern provinces: Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe as well as the two Western provinces: North and South Holland, as it was over 90 years ago before 1930! More details are in the time line below.
The quality of the original B&W footage is not as good as other footage from the same source. Nevertheless, it is so unique that we decided to upload it to TH-cam. The B&W source has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, interpolated, restored, enhanced and colorized with modern A.I. video software. Because of the poor quality, the video noise and other filters had to be configured to higher settings to more drastically clean up the footage.
Music: Spectacles Wallet and Watch
Source: Beeld En Geluid, A great Dutch online historic film archive.
Timeline (draft):
00:00 Steam train
00:12 Groningen and Martini tower
00:18 Agrigultural activity
00:46 Bringing in the hay
00:57 National fest in Appingedam
01:06 Horse and buggy
01:40 In the woods
01:56 A shepherd and his sheep
02:26 Digging turf
02:40 Cutting turf sods for heating purposes
03:13 Black & white Friesian cows (Fries stamboekvee)
03:41 Groninger blaarkop cow breed
03:52 Healthy cow
03:58 Healthy bull
04:07 Ice scating along the canals and lakes in Friesland
04:17 Ice masters
04:58 Ice sailing
05:37 Ice skating, maybe part of an Eleven Cities competition
05:42 Sailing on Friesland's many lakes
06:40 Train ferry near Stavoren
06:51 Industrious activity on the water
07:06 Binding wicker
07:18 Wicker mats as underground for a new dyke
07:32 Dyke construction
07:48 Creating a solid under layer with bolders
08:03 Filling barges with clay
08:19 Pumping clay and sand to create the dyke
09:23 Finishing the dyke
09:46 A scenic boat trip along a canal
10:14 Watermill
10:42 Scenes along a canal
10:44 The land is about 3 m. lower than the water level!
11:06 Alkmaar and its famous cheese market
11:27 "Handjeklap" to make a deal
11:31 Inspecting and tasting the cheese
11:45 Weighing the cheeses
11:56 Amsterdam Central Station and the famous Tea house
12:14 Panning towards the Damrak
12:30 Palace on the Dam
12:42 Stock exchange: Beurs van Berlage
12:51 Beursplein
12:55 Damrak looking towards the Central Station
13:15 Leidseplein: American Hotel, Stadsschouwburg and Hirsch building
13:57 Rijksmuseum
14:05 Designed by Kuyper
14:11 The Munttoren
14:20 One of Amsterdams wonderful canals, location-1 (?)
14:26 Location-2 (?)
14:38 Location-3 (?)
14:43 Location-4 (?)
14:52 Location-5 (?)
15:00 Location-6 (?)
15:04 Rembrandthuis, Jodenbreestraat
15:20 Statue of Rembrandt
15:28 Rembrandt's famous Nightwatch
15:38 Near Het Kolkje
15:48 Het Kolkje
16:01 Ditto, location-8 (?)
16:07 Alley, location (?)
16:12 Ladies trading goods
16:18 Old men, probably in the Jordaan quarters
16:26 Probably Volendam
16:42 Ladies in Volendam traditional costume
17:02 Volendam fisherman
17:07 Ditto
17:13 Ice skating on the Zuiderzee
17:16 Horse drawn ice sledge
17:21 Cycling on the ice
17:26 Such harsh winters are history now
17:37 Happy people from the island of Marken
17:52 Marken girl in traditional costume
17:59 Ditto, two Marken girls
18:06 Frans Hals museum in Haarlem
18:36 Hyacint growers
18:40 Fields full of flowers in the Bollenstreek
18:48 The famous Dutch tulips
19:03 Leiden, Academy building, Rapenburg near the Botanical Garden
19:28 A boat trip on a canal, probably in Leiden
19:36 Maybe the Vliet
19:51 Cattle along the canal (Vliet?)
19:56 The Hague, Houses of Parliament
20:12 The Ridderzaal where the Parliament meets
20:28 Looking towards the Ridderzaal through the pillars
20:45 Opening of Parliament in 1919, each year on the 3rd Tuesday in September
20:49 Queen Wilhelmina salutes the Royal Standard
20:57 She rides back to her palace
21:23 The Hofvijver next to the Houses of Parliament
21:42 Lange Vijverberg on the left
21:59 Vredespaleis (peace palace), funded by Carnegie
22:09 Judges inside the Vredespaleis
22:29 Ditto, outside
22:40 Scheveningen beach with its many wicker beach chairs
22:49 The old Pier right in front of the Kurhaus
22:58 The Pier burnt down during WWII in 1943
23:04 More beach scenes
23:10 The Hague, location (?)
23:25 Holland's many cyclists, probably been to the Bollenstreek
23:45 Canal in The Hague, maybe Mauritskade (?)
23:55 Removing leaves from cauliflower, location Westland (?)
23:59 Green houses in the Westland
24:06 The Nieuwe Kerk in Delft
24:24 Status of Hugo Grotius (Hugo De Groot)
24:32 Portrait of William of Orange
24:35 The grave of Hugo de Groot
24:41 The Grote Markt in Delft
24:44 Oude Langedijk
24:56 Oude Delft
25:06 Passing the Oude Kerk
25:11 Another canal in Delft, location (?)
25:15 Panoramic view of Rotterdam Harbour
26:35 Rotterdam harbor
30:56 Rotterdam Coolsingel
Notes:
1. We had difficulty to find enough great music to fill over 30 minutes of video. If you don't like the music then just turn down the volume and play your own music in stead.
2. Please do not re-use my footage anywhere without permission, thanks!
![Paris: Impressive footage of how The Rich and the Poor lived in the 1920s [AI enhanced & colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mPSOfTGQGFo/mqdefault.jpg)
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*Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel* ! Press the CC button to read the events and locations while the film plays.
Also kindly help to complete the timeline, thanks! There are many more films about old Amsterdam and other Dutch cities on my channel: th-cam.com/play/PLP_6hUsQRi8uhw9Rz7GFID8KrErrpmee2.html
Next time I'll use more cheerful music. Finding copyright-free music to fill over 30 minutes of film is not easy.
Hi! I recognized a couple of places you are missing:
24:07 - Nieuwe kerk in Delft
24:51 - Oude Langendijk in Delft (I believe)
24:55 > 25:13 - Oude Delft & Oude kerk (Delft)
Amazing footage! thanks so much 😍
@@david37938 Thanks! I have added the timeline and CC captions now.
@@Rick88888888 25:11 is also de Oude Delft right next to the Oude kerk, but then from the other direction (oude kerk on the right side)
@Charles Martel Please DO NOT provoke this kind of discussions on my channel! You know damn well that The Netherlands was 99% white in 1930.
@Charles Martel You don't have to go away, but just be aware that race-oriented debates do not belong on this historic channel! Furthermore, I am sick of that topic because experience has shown that nearly always it leads to escalating inflamatory debate which spoils things for most of my viewers. Just enjoy the videos and forget about the mess in todays world.
Imagine being 100 years old watching this, watching your world as a kid and how it changed.
Someone I know recently showed their mother, who is near 100, a recording on TH-cam of her mother singing in the 1930s (friends grandmother); she hadn’t heard her mother’s voice in over 60 years, and it melted her into tears and smiles. It was something.
After your 4th booster shot, your body really will feel like it’s a 100 yrs old...
I'm 36 and already often think about how much I've seen the world change. It's like a whole other world now.
@@stressbucket9846 I’m 58 and I’ve lived through massive changes. I now struggle with where I fit in this hateful techy society
@@mominthe209 your generation X had to be most dissapointed generation ever, where it went after 90's. 80's were greatest time and greatest hope, it will be finally good.
My mom was born in Rotterdam in 1932. It's nice seeing the world she was talking about in her stories. Too bad that changed so quickly with the start of WWII. She was so young when that happened that I have to wonder how much of the original country she remembered. Either way, thank you for sharing a glimpse of her life.
living in Rotterdam during WWII must have been really hard. Most of Rotterdam was destroyed(bombed), that is why Rotterdam now is known for it's modern architecture
My mom was born in Enschede in 1934 -close to the German border. Fortunately, her immediate family all survived. Terrible hardships during WWII and after they they had to endure -the stories are pretty incredible.
@@muurrarium9460 they've been destroying this planet from the beginning. Its getting old
My Grandfather was born in Konya, Türkey. He passed away about 25 year's ago when I was in my twenties and I remember him telling me that he used to travel to Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Norway quite a bit for work as well as many other places in Europe. He was a teacher and whenever he told me stories about his travels through Europe in the 20s and 30s he would always divert to how beautiful Europe and its people were during these times and how people were not racist towards each other. Being from the old era in Türkey he always wore a Fes and no matter where he went in these countries no one ever picked on me or said anything about the Fes, my nationality or my religion he used to say. But after world war two that changed entirely. People became rude towards each other and very disrespectful towards religion and race.
Is she still alive
Grandparents all came from the Netherlands to US about that time. Families of 9 and 14. 3 uncles drowned in a canal and are buried there. I came from family of 10. All we knew was hard work from age of 8-10. My grandfather worked in a brick factory so can’t blame him for wanting to leave. Still have relatives there. Thanks for the video.
Wow I am very curious to know what happened in that canal, it sounds strangely haunted by something evil to pull three to their deaths.
@@erepsekahs right, why did obama buy property on the beach at Martha's vineyard?
@@erepsekahs The sea levels have risen though.
@@simianto9957
Yes, about 24cm increase measured along the dutch coast line, in a steady line, from 1880 to 2020.
Especially the fact that it's a steady line is interesting. In 100+ years the 'climate changes' have had no effect on it apparently.
@@Boris82 Yea, so it's going up.
The cameras from the early 1900s are in better quality than most security cams.
😅😂😂
Laten we niet over-romantiseren. Het leven was hard. Crisistijd en veel werkeloosheid. Ja, er was puurheid en men hield elkaar op een goede manier in de gaten. Maar het was geen feestje, zoals mijn opa uit 1907 ooit vertelde.
Maar al met al wel een prachtig en oer- Hollands plaatje om van te genieten
doen we ook niet. mij opa overleed in 1930 aan een blindedarmoperatie. het leven was zwaar. mijn oma bleef alleen achter met 2 dochters en is toen een winkel begonnen. mijn opa wilde een radiozaak openen. hij was pas 32 toen hij overleed. mijn moeder was 2.
I’m sure! Same here in the USA at that time.
Lad os ikke over-romantisere. Livet var hårdt. Krisetid og megen arbejdsløshed. Ja, der var renhed og mænd opretholdt gode manerer på gaden. Men det var ingen fest, hvilket min bedstefar fra 1907 kunne fortælle. [Interpretation into Danish, without aid - just surprised how similar to Danish Dutch seems to be. Probably some errors, but not completely wrong? - --- And life in Denmark a hundred year ago was not easy either]
@@peterhansen5804 Mutual intelligibility rocks. German is my second language, but it was quite easy to work out what everyone was saying here.
Dear Rick, the choice of music in this remarkable and extraordinary video literally made the hair on my arms stand up. You are truly a story teller. It was spellbinding. Thank you.
Thank you very much! Pleased you enjoyed it. It is not the kind of music I normally use and I still have second thoughts about it. I had to fill 32 minutes of film with music. If I don't add music I get many complaints...
@@Rick88888888 Well, You can't please everybody. The opening, so far, sounded foreboding and like the start of a horror movie ... still, I'm only on the first minute ... Yep, got much better indeed. Happy to see (I lived in NL). Nice to see all the elm trees alive and well in A'dam. (Before the tree-killing disease).
@@Rick88888888 the music triggered my anxiety attacks bad enough I had to turn it off. Nearly didn't make it before getting a seizure.
@@jwenting Yes, didn't understand why it was so dark.
It seems inappropriately creepy at the start to me.
My wife's Nan turned 100 last week, born in 1921 and we were talking about how many changes they have seen in their lives. My own Nan is in her mid-90's and grew up on a farm. As a girl she had to pump water and they had no electricity, but she speaks about these times with great fondness.
Say hi to nan for me
Drink a cold one for Nan for me
And how old are you now sir ?😂
I can honestly tell you, spending too much time on screens, having almost no greenery in your surroundings, polluting cars everywhere so little motivation to go out and making walks or bike tours and little community feeling (people and families being very much occupied with themselves and less with the community).......that is damn hard for me. Maybe its a different kind of hard but I think the social element is kind of a great factor
❤
Deze film zou normaal tot Nederlands erfgoed moeten behoren. De techniek van de dijkbouw werd in de jaren 80 toegepast bij de uitbreiding van de Zeebrugse haven. Deze techniek is zo speciaal dat men vanuit Azie kwam bestuderen hoe je kan aan landwinning doen.
Dank je wel. Heb je deze film op mijn andere kanaal over de Afsluitdijk al gezien? th-cam.com/video/wOIC9wkjDBQ/w-d-xo.html
Ik viel inderdaad bijna van mijn stoel toen ik begreep waar men daar mee bezig was! Altijd gelezen in boekjes over de aanleg van jullie gigantische afsluitdijk maar jongens jongens, toen ze met sun allen die stenen overboord keilden om de matten te doen zinken drong het ineens door..........waw, gewoon
Lovely people the Dutch. So friendly. Much love from England 🏴
Thanks! I love the British, too!
Love this! The cameraman did an amazing job. My grandparents' generation was so like this....friendly, loved to play, but really hard workers too.
and then came the war....
What is see is a proud nation, a nation of farmers, workers, builders and craftsmen.
A nation that fought against the odds and bigger neighbors to carve out a piece on this world for it self, a nation that fought the sea to do so and won.
So beautifully described! I think many foreigners miss this part of the Netherlands.
And that will all be gone if we keep complying!
@@MosheBenChaim I think I know what you are implying but would you be more specific? It's not too late... Policies can change...
@@Skies133
You clearly understand what i am saying
;)
But i will give a little tip of the iceberg.
They want all farmers gone so they can control the food supply and control us even better.
@@swooshdutch3021 who?? 0_0 ?
When looking at this for the first time, only a few clips bring instant recognition. Perhaps with some research a few more will follow. But for now:
At 00:11 Groningen, Oosterstraat, Martinitoren.
At 11:56 Amsterdam, Central Station.
At 12:30 Amsterdam, Dam Square, Palace.
At 13:57 Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
At 19:56 The Hague, Binnenhof.
At 20:13 The Hague, Ridderzaal.
At 21:22 The Hague, Hofvijver.
At 22:49 Scheveningen, Kurhaus.
There are a few places I recognize, but without stopping and trying to confirm my initial thoughts, I can't describe them accurately. I opted for keeping enjoying this marvelous compilation.
De koeien en boerderijen vanaf de derde minuut lijkt me in Friesland, misschien dat het schaatsen er ook bij hoort maar die klederdracht herken ik niet.
Thank you very much. A detailed timeline is now available as well as CC captions. I have ran out of space because TH-cam only allows up to 5000 characters. There are still some location unidentified, particularly in Amsterdam.
@@Rick88888888 Location 7 in Amsterdam is het Rembrandthuis in de Jodenbreestraat.
@@Rick88888888 Gracht op 24:46 is de Oude Langendijk in Delft
@@Rick88888888 Bij 25:11 is ook de Oude Delft en de Oude Kerk te zien, maar dan van de andere kant.
The footage is stunning beautiful.2 see that era of life an living so clearly an in color is amazing. So much togetherness among the people. Living life with each other, something we don't have now. Thank you very much 4 giving us this beautiful trip.
Thank you so much!
True statement. "Living life with each other, something we don't have now." Who would've thought.
@@shawni321 because we all work exhausting jobs, have tv and TH-cam and just don’t have the time or need for others
There is a very reason that togetherness, health, hard work and even plumpness of faces has changed. Its all by design. Not accidental
Wonderful video of my country! So lovely to see how it used to be. Thanks for making this great effort!
Man those cows look so happy..that time looks so peaceful and simple it's beautiful..
Yes, thanks
Amsterdam Centraal Station was the best!!! I can't believe I recognized it. The cows were glistening.
I’m so appreciative of all the videos you post! This was fascinating with dike building, cheese market, ice skating and especially interesting (to me) harvesting peat (turf sod). Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Pleased you enjoyed it!
I'm smiling when I read your comment. It's always nice to hear about the perception of people who aren't Dutch. For me, this video is a great history lesson, beautifully presented. I remember, when I visited my Frisian grandparents in the North of Frisia/Friesland, at the age of 6 or so, that we walked on Sundays to the places where pea/turf was harvested, where very deep canals ran between the vertical walls of clay. In the water, I noticed a large fish, which was a pike, completely motionless, and threatening to me. It was all wet, muddy and bleak. That was the year 1957 or so.
The population in Drenthe, a county attached to Frisia, created homes from turf, half hidden in the ground. Simple huts with turf covering a structure made of willow branches. They were called "plagge hutten", which means "huts made of turflayers". Families lived there, winter and summer. I believe that life was harsh when rain and frost arrived. The smoke of the turf fire, and the damp drafty space inside, must've been suffocating, causing poor health in children, I assume, and arthritis symptoms in adults. Poverty played a role as well, naturally.
Regarding this channel, I'm sure to subscribe and see more of what's posted.
Watching those turf harvesters and farmers, I don't think we appreciate how hard life was back then.
I’m sorry for asking a stupid question, but why (for what purpose) did they harvest peat?
@@Khangelpeat is dried and used as fuel, like coal.
This footage will proof In a hundred years from now that Europe was in reality inhabitated by Europeans In the first place.
what
@@lukedebruin1979 because Europe looks very middle eastern a d African right now 😂.
It's like looking through to another universe...so eerie...so amazing.
It is so clean , there is no trash
Makes me wonder where you expected to see trash
@@melvinjansen2338 the canals were historically filthy and it took many efforts to finally clean them up. The canal in the red light district still had trash in it the last time I was there. The Dutch were known to throw their pipes and bikes in the canals as one example
24:46
exactly, even in the 1600 `s foreigners that visited the `Low Lands` were surprised how clean the streats were....still nowadys you will see very little garbage on the streets and the public infrastructure is generally in pristine condition Lived there for 11 years, great country and lovely people (though I had a severe culture shock coming from Belgium)
Hence the sheer speed of development and change. This isn't even so extremely long ago.
Before major flooding really started to threaten the mainland.
Extremely long ago? 2,000 BC is extremely long ago. This is less than a 100 yrs..
@@MacD559 i'm saying that this is not so long ago.
no, right?!....
@@MacD559 even 2000 BC is not that long ago...........
Wauw! Ik kan bijna niet geloven dat dit echt (1930) is. Is het echt? Heel erg mooi. Geweldig! Groetjes uit Nederland
Zo leuk om nog dagelijks op sommige plekken te lopen en het ook te herkennen dank Rick!
I’m Turkish and I grew up in Holland, whenever I see the past of Holland something inside me gets sad for some reason. I see those people and I know what they have been trough. I remember the teachers telling us how it was back in those days, the music the landscape those buildings everything just feels really familiar. I love your videos
Thanks!
Aynen
This is real history!
It's scary to think that 9 years later their lives were turned upside down and they had no idea what was coming.
this is truly something that stirred up my feeling of nostalgia! i’m not sure why.? utterly brilliant. i’ve watched others but this seriously topped the lot in many ways. the music the presentation is top notch. superb thank you .
Glad you enjoyed it!
dankjewel, rick! prachtig!
My mother was born in Friesland in 1942 so my grandparents would have been young in adults 1930, I know my mom said they often only had potatoes to eat but this gave me a whole different perspective about some of my family history thankyou.
I was born in 1944, I recognize many aspects of the first 25 minutes as those shots are from Friesland. Don't forget life after the war were the first 8 years very difficult. But after that it started to ease.
Fascinerend! Vooral het plaggenwerk en de dijkbouw. Ook mooi hoe sommige details gegeven werden, zoals de gesp op een schoen.
Can u tell me which parts are from friesland? My family is from leeuwarden, sneek, dokkum so it would be nice to show them!
Isn’t Friesland in Germany?
@@Tobi-ln9xr Nope nothern of the Netherlands
Thank your for the great amount of highly-skilled work you have done to make this remarkable video.
Spectacular! Thank you for sharing this extraordinary footage.
Thank you so much! What an amazing compilation and effort. So moving. I’m learning watercolor and so inspiring for me to see. So well done. Can’t imagine the work involved.
You are so welcome!
The music is eerily beautiful and fits the video. Both make me feel sad for a bygone era.
Next time I'll use more cheerful music. Finding copyright-free music to fill over 30 minutes of film is not easy.
@@Rick88888888 Oh no, I wasn't complaining about the music. I thought it fit the video very well. It made me happy and sad at the same time.
Thank you for all the good work you have done here on TH-cam, really appreciated.
This footage is a jewel! It takes the viewer back in time and places him in the exact situations where you want to stay there. You have to snap back out of it to get back to this harsh reality of today. Cannot thank you enough!!!
Harsh reality today ?
And this time in clip ? This mans suer work every single day hard and 10 or 12 ours on day . Work without machines or anything else what make her work easier.
I will give u my time machine and you can go back in this time but later dont cry ,the live there is to hard and you will come back 🥺
Child labor, huge gap between the poor and the rich, high rates of infant mortality. My mom became a maid at the age of 13, as they called it " for day and night". Imagine, being 13 and you have to work your ass off from the early morning till the evening, away from home and going home only at sundays to bring your earning to your parents. The lady of the house was having a luxury life and let my mum, a 13 years old child, clean the huge villa. My family was a labor family at that time, working hard in factories and still very poor. I realise how lucky I am that I got good education and therefore a comfortable life as an offspring from the labor class from that time and that everything is changed. I don't experience any harsh reality nowadays. The Netherlands is nowaddays the country with the most happy children of the world with also very happy parents.
@@reign6of6e6terror Hi! I don't look too often at responses to my comments. You made me smile (the nice way!). Yes, of course you are right in what you are saying. Just let me tell you what I meant when I wrote "this harsh reality." I was thinking about all the technology that is used to watch people. Cameras everywhere. No privacy anymore. People being suspicious about everyone and their intentions. See and tell. That's what I thought about. I traveled with this footage to a time when you could walk at a slower pace, smell the roses, when a week lasted 10 days (poetically speaking), your senses were not bombarded with "news" about crimes, corrupt politicians, or knowing about everything that is going on in every country of the world (over communication), etc. I'm still smiling about your saying: "I will give u my time machine and you can go back in this time but later don't cry... LOL. Thanks!!!
Amazing footage from my beloved country ♥️🇳🇱😍. When you live abroad like me, you start to appreciate your home country more.
🕊❤️☝️🙏….
thats a known sentiment for all emigrants ;)
Such attention to detail in the filming, as if the videographers knew they were making historical records.
Wonderful restoration work on this footage! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Imagine looking at this and not realizing your ancestors could be looking back at you.
90 years ago this place was already more developed than many developing countries today.
Everything is so pristine. Even the cattle had glistening glossy coats out in the pasture!
@@PraetorAkin I too was curious ( I'm from Texas and have been around alot of cattle) so I looked up cattle farming in the 19th century Netherlands and it's partially due to the grass they feed on and ( imo greatly) due to the cleanliness of the stables. It's an interesting read if you have the time to Google it I think mainly since we have advanced 🙄(wink wink)so much we are incredibly lazy and simply lost the ability to actually do the work they did back then.
Yes, not like now.
@@PraetorAkin People had so much more time on their hands then (young in particular). No internet, TV, smartphones or video games. More time to spend looking after their animals etc.
Yea almost as if it was a production
@@inertiaspinner555 right?😆
Waanzinnig mooi om te zien!
The footage and music create a remarkable experience in time travel. I don't mean to be a downer, but it gradually dawned on me that most of Rotterdam we see here was obliterated by German bombing in May 1940; maybe this actually increases the sense of nostalgia.
There are a number of videos about Rotterdam on my channel, including about the devastation after the bombing:
th-cam.com/play/PLP_6hUsQRi8uANUWXhXutoFj3JGSL77b-.html
Thanks for your work and bringing it beautifully together.
Thank you too!
Wonderful film . So many memories ! Left in 1957 .
The music is so well chosen with the footage. It's not an easy task to make that match, I believe. Well done, proficiat!
What a fantastic work you have done!!! Thank you, love it.
It reminds me of the 1960s geography books with colour pictures I found so wonderful which showed me Holland and other countries as a child (in the days before the internet). It also shows a world where people were more like each other - an easier world of shared values (as it was also here in the UK before the 1929 market crash when times became very hard indeed in the UK).
Ya idk if 1917 was much better for the UK, bud.
remember how magical the world was before we all started staring at our tvs, phones, computers, tablets.....
Beautiful. Thanks for posting this. It made my life better.
Prachtig! Bedankt voor het uploaden.
That was amazing! I watched it all and It felt like it was still happening❤️ Like I could wave to those people from their future Thank you for the music too Well done!
The cows look so clean!
Absolutely amazing, thank you for this video! I was fortunate enough to visit Amsterdam for a week in 1966 when it was still Dutch. I remember purchasing a small Delft flower vase from the factory and a wooden windmill lamp that turned and changed colors for my mother and a pair of red wooden shoes that were the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned in my life! And the tulip and dairy farms, oh so beautiful! My great-grandma, born in 1884 used to say she was "Irish and Dutch and didn't amount to much." This also reminded me of a book I read several times as a small child, "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates,"
Haha when it was still Dutch.
So true, so true.
it's still dutch lmao what u talkin about, fool
My mother had an aunt "Tabby" in Rotterdam.
She danced a lot and had a big Irish flag in her bedroom. Greetings from across the pond 😁
@@demammoet Greetings to you friend! Beautiful memory you have.
Goede video Rick! De muziek klinkt als stilte voor de storm, bedankt!
Beautiful!! I'm really starting to wonder if we're not devolving as a species.
Chris Freestone we are de- evolving.
@@maryanndeweerd2570 Thanks Maryann. I'm not the best at typing. But I've spent allot of time reading Canadian military history and I love art.
@@chrisfreestone4136 that's great to hear. I love history too.
Rick........
Je hebt jezelf overtroffen wat een pracht inclusief de muziek.
💪♥️
Indrukwekkende film.
Mooi werk van de cameraman nen van destijds, geweldig omgezet in kleur met mooie muziek eronder en een prachtige mooi land in die tijd. Je zou er haast naar terug willen. Klasse👍👌
More advanced in 1910 than Wakanda in 2022.
😂😂
we thought it would be better if :
- we didnt have to work manual hard labour ever
- we didnt have to walk, bicycle and take the tram
- we didnt have to follow the seasons of the food
- we didnt have to let dad go to work and mom take care of the kids
- we didnt have to have firm discipline in the school
- we didnt have to be careful with ALL our belongings and values
- we didnt have to have respect for authorities
so we changed it all.... let the cars take over. let the me me me take over. let the greed rule. let the wealthy get away with it..
theyre lying to us.
it isnt..
Rick, je hebt smaak maatje
Thaks for this amazing content
😮Amazing post with mesmerizing 🎵 music! Thank you for this treasure! 💕
Glad you enjoyed it
Truly fascinating...thank you so much for bringing this to us...love from Scotland.
Glad you enjoyed it
From 04:35 Ice sledge racing is seven centuries old. An ice sledge racing sled must be moved with sticks. In the past these sleds were made of wood with beautiful paintings.
Thanks. I have no idea whether these sledges are still used.
@@Rick88888888 : This clip is from 2021 : th-cam.com/video/9vGpB3L2zz0/w-d-xo.html
The ladies are wearing tradition Hindelooper costumes (Hindeloopen Friesland), also the sledges (prikslee) where in this little city beautiful carfed and painted in traditional motives (still done by Roosje Hindeloopen > th-cam.com/video/bAQZ13RFWI0/w-d-xo.html) Also when there is enough ice the local iceclub still organize games and races
Wszystko wypracowali sami własnymi rękoma.
Pracowity naród.
Wspólnota społeczna.
Kultura życia.
o dear......in english or german perhaps dear friend???
A super interesting collection of footage - thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
Lived & worked in the Netherlands for 3 years (1999-2001) and felt like I'd come home, though not Dutch. Still saw ladies in traditional dress, farmers with cart horses on the highway, and herring netted.
Its so sad to know how everything of our frysian culture slowly disappears
Your work is extraordinary and important to know. My personal thanks because this is my ancestry and cultural roots.
Watched not knowing about the CC turned it on a rewatched very interesting and a little eerie at times but really enjoyed thank you
It would seem that the original filming is probably clearer than what we were always lead to believe even possible …
The clarity is stunning..
Nicely done..
🕊🙏❤️☝️
Dutch folk are really cool people,I’m scottish & have felt welcomed every time I go there…lovely people
Yea to westerners
@@JeromePowerrr what do you mean?
Great Grandparents came from this area in the early 1900's, pretty magical to see the world they lived in...
I wonder why they left
I have been fortunate enough to live in this beautiful country for the last 37 years , and for this blessing, I thank God every day 🧡
Dit is de eerste keer van al je prachtige videos dat ik mensen te snel zie lopen.
Ik heb het ook gezien. Dat is het probleem van hand-cranked film camera's plus in dit geval vele verschillende fragmenten uit heel veel bronnen. De opnames kunnen liggen tussen 12 en 18 beelden per seconde. Het is me eerlijk gezegd te veel werk om elk stukje separaat te corrigeren. De (drie-delige) film is tot 68% van de oorspronkelijke snelheid gecorrigeerd. Sommige stukken hadden eigenlijk ca. 60% nodig. Soms is zelfs 50% of nog minder nodig. Het blijft een inschatting die op het oog moet gebeuren.
@@Rick88888888 Duidelijk. Maar toch weer prachtig hoor, en oprechte dank voor je werk.
@@Rick88888888 je hebt ook altijd mensen die alles opmerken! Maar goed ook :) Fantastisch werk, zeer bijzondere beelden.......ik hoop dat deze footage bewaard wordt voor het nageslacht....
What a nostalgically romantic time my Lord.
schitterend weer!!!!! genieten!!
Amazing, Thx for the upload!
These people are much different than the average folks do today. All look so decent and remarkably trustworthy, strong and free of fear. They were hardworking honest humans.
Beautiful film. What a busy, hardworking country! I wished there were more close ups of what people were wearing- the buildings are incredible - fascinating thanks for sharing this
Amazing how they used the windmills to pump out the water and reclaim land that's below sea level.
Okay that part in Amsterdam was strange to see, but then when it got to my home city of leiden I was completely blown away, to see people in the same city but almost 100 years ago, and then the Vliet, where i have been many times before also on a boat, it was crazy, thank you for the video
Loved this experience! And music ♥️💯
This isn't even 100 years ago. There could be people still living today from that time. Yet it feels ancient.
doesn't feel much more ancient than any later time before the internet.
Yes but honestly, if you took a video today with those old cameras it would feel old and strange as well.
Jasmijn ariel uh what? the netherlands were heavily industrialized in the 1920s. there even is heavy industry in this video, look at those port clips toward the end! that looks almost identical to ports today, except back then they didn't have any standardized containers.
@@jasmijnariel are you not familiar with a period in time known as the industrial age?
It started approximately 250yrs ago...
This looks like such a beautiful time and place, almost fairytale-ish🥰 before their world was ransacked by the wars...I know many had it hard but I still see such an order and beauty and a harmonious natural rhythm to it all.
Dit is zo mooi en ook ontroerend....
It's so cool seeing the life of my grandparents in colour
This is a lot better at max speed thanks for posting
Video footage from 100 years ago is rare. But in another 100 years, humans will have millions of hours of footage from our era, so much that you can live your whole life staring at the past and never run out of things to see...
Wooow nice said. Never thought about that
What wonderful piece of history!
thanks so much rick its literally facinating looking back at the time even before my mother was born she was born in 1940. I grew up with my grandaunt who was born in 1905 i keep remembering how old she was when this was made. she would have only been 25 years old and she passed on in 1995.. i love looking at the peoples faces from this time period its so interesting looking back in history. keep up the great work rick!!!
Thank you very much!
Very good. Love the music
Met uw belangrijke werk brengt u de geschiedenis weer tot leven, Rick, waarvoor mijn compliment!! Het lijkt mij toe dat het een hele klus moet zijn geweest het oorspronkelijke beeld materiaal weer toonbaar te maken :-)
Als oud-Damster kan ik het niet laten uw info bij 00:57 wat uit te breiden :
00:57 National fest near Groningen . De plaats die wordt getoond is Appingedam, de stad waar geboren ben. De afstand tussen Groningen en Appingedam is ongeveer 25 kilometer...
Dank je wel, ik heb het aangepast. Heb je Appingedam herkend in de film?
Great to see this video of my homeland. Thankyou
Glad you enjoyed it
@@Rick88888888 yes I enjoyed these films alot. Nostalgic and I feel immensely proud of my anscestors. Thankyou so much!🤲
This is wonderful. Thank you. I miss visiting the Netherlands because of the pandemic. It’s like my second home.
You would feel a certain way just walking down the street because the architecture is so grand and everything is so beautiful, like you would really want to be proud of that. Also notice how massive the "sidewalks" are. Stunning.
Beautiful great video. I' m nostalgic for these times that I didn' t even experience myself. When you travel outside the big cities though, you can still see scenes that give you a feeling of being in a former time. I always just hung around in the big cities and traveled to other big cities, then when I was around 35 I finally took a biketrip from Maastricht to Groningen and took the time and effort to see more of the countryside. I never knew my country was that beautiful. The big city life can sometimes feel so severed from the Dutch identity and past. The only nice Dutch scene you can see nearby is some image of a windmill on some cheese in a supermarket while hearing the bleeps of the cashier scanning while living in these living areas with high rise condominiums. Explore the country.
At 06:40 Train ferry near Stavoren : On July 15, 1886 a domestic goods-train ferry connection was opened between the Dutch towns Enkhuizen in Holland and Stavoren in Friesland. These ferries have been in operation till April 1, 1936. As from January 22, 1900 the steam ferry STAVOREN was on duty, followed by steam ferry ENKHUIZEN II.
Dank je wel
Steam 🤣🤣🤣🚂
Good as ever, nice job
the music makes it otherworldly