Winter 1929 - footage of firefighting, showing the use of heavy hosing. Water icing over in buildings in the middle of winter after putting fires out. Ijmuiden 29th April 1930 - footage of dams and huge water reservoir and steamship docking from the Netherlands with a caption about the “Johan Van Oldenbarmetelt” with the Kooninklijke family on board.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
314002
Language
English
Subject categories
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Dams
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Fire
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Fire fighters
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Dams
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Fire fighters
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Ships
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Steam-engines
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Fire fighters
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Steam-engines
Sound/audio
Silent
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)