160926, “Children of Holland”, “An Instructional Sound Film Produced by Erpi Classroom Films Inc”, 1939

This black & white educational film is about the people of Holland, a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. (The name Holland is also frequently used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands.) This movie was released in 1939 and was photographed by famed filmmaker Julien Bryan. The plot of the film is simple: sister and brother Annie and Hans VanWyck are students from a small town in Holland. They collect eggs from chickens on their farm, and with their father they travel to the market at Middelburg. Once there, they buy cigars for their uncle.

Opening titles: Children of Holland produced by Erpi Classroom Films Inc., aka Encyclopaedia Britannica, (:06-:24) in collaboration with Arthur Gates, Ph.D. Holland. Windmill, small boats, ships in a dock. Cattle graze. Morning in Holland on a farm, children feed chickens breakfast. Father gets milk ready for the market while Mother makes the cupboard beds (:25-1:13). Children feed the chickens, Mother asks the children to eat. Children and their father remove their wooden shoes — known as sabots — and enter the house. Family says grace and then eats breakfast at the table. Tea is poured. The family talks about how they’re going into town tomorrow. The children walk to school, they stop and visit their Uncle and see if he’d like anything from town. The children watch their Uncle hoist a sack of grain in the windmill before climbing the stairs (1:14-3:40). The grain is poured into the wheels to be ground into flour. The children hurry off to school. Children enter school. The children sit in a geography class. They raise their hands and answer. Recess and games in the schoolyard. The girls dance as the boys play (3:41-5:49). Children play as they leave school and head home on bicycles. The children and their parents look their best as they head into town on a horse and buggy. They wave goodbye to their farm hand (5:50-7:19). The family waits for a bridge and then crosses it into town. City Hall in Middelburg. Family walks around the market square. The Mother takes her basket of eggs to a buyer. The Father and son go into a cigar store for the Uncle (7:20-8:45). No end credits.

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