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Content by: Polygoon-Profilti (producent) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder)

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Publication Date: 1 January 1935

Description: Cinematic tour at the fruit and vegetable growers in the West country, the z.g.n. glass city. The still largely manual cultivation of vegetables and fruits is shown. Harvesting cabbage, lettuce, melons, Endive, tomatoes, and cucumbers. The greenhouses are heated with coal ovens. Supply of fruit and vegetables on the auction of poeldijk, which are sold via the auction clock. Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a particular week are presented.

Description (more): 00.00 high glass greenhouses with further away the Church of Poeldijk 00.17 half-height greenhouses in the Westlandgracht Glass roofs of a number of greenhouses 00.20 00.31 pickers to work in field with 00.39 bonenplanten picking green beans, on their knees reclining 00.53 Endive men cut the creeping los, remove the lower leaves and then collapse the heads and boy in auction box 01.15 picks up Cabbage plants in field that is harvested. Coal is of the lower lossgesneden sheets and laid in wooden boxes that are stacked on a wheelbarrow 01.36 new glass is put in cash after which the frames with tar are bestreken 02.00 Face from above on contiguous glass greenhouses. The clean Windows of the roof of a greenhouse February 11th two large heating ovens side by side, door opens and kolengestookt fire is visible February 23 system of heating pipes in a large greenhouse February 28 greenhouses with masonry ovenschoorstenen 02.33 Gardener raking soil to servants in a large greenhouse, a so-called. Department store. In the greenhouse heating pipes 02.45 rows number of low greenhouses, walk with the so called. platglas 02.52 harvesting cucumbers from low greenhouses where the glass is covered with white paint to large heat counter 02.58 Cucumbers be careful cut loose, set aside and wooden box packed 03.28 harvesting melons also from low greenhouses 03.35 be gently the melons on the glass next to it, on wood wool laid in shallow boxes made by BARROW to be piled on a flat-bottomed barge auction April 22 portion of the kassenareaal April 26 Almost ripe peaches to a peach tree in a greenhouse, young woman reaping the fruits 04.45 large greenhouse in which young breeder with picking peaches and his wife on the wood shavings in auction box Pack of peaches may 23rd to lay under a layer of wood shavings in a kleinwinkelverkoopkistje (dozen per 05.39 narrow gauge box) between two rows 05.44 greenhouses Tomato harvest by guys, ripe tomatoes to a crowded tomatenplant 06.00 pickers to work in tomatenkas. Guys who help a young woman with headscarf, finally the grower at 06.26 tomatoes are tomatoes in a large handle cart, kwekersgezinverlaat the greenhouse with full baskets after which the servants empty baskets deposit in new auction boxes which hundreds of already filled and piled on a pontoon boat cruise 06.55 sort tomatoes by size on a sorting machine in which the fruits are placed in a tank spread 07.08 continuous-holes. The larger tomatoes, the smaller fall through the holes on the same bin below it etc. Omhoogkomende rods through the holes regularly ensure the transport under the bin. On the side of the machine, the tomato via lockable drain funnels in teilen 07.32 grape vines against high garden walls and barn walls, the so-called grapes walls. In the background the Church in Monster 07.46 Grapes greenhouses with open nokramen 07:55 Full bunches of green grapes 08.06 Lush tendrils with copious bunches 08.13 cut very careful breeder with a pair of scissors bunches blue grapes, are watching them from all sides and places them carefully a 08.33 fully loaded barges on the way to the auction veilingkistje auction 08.44 crowds in the waterway along the losbordes of the Poeldijk 08.59 fruitveiling building overview of Sun auction crates with fruit in full auction Hall dereeds 09.07 barge with tomatoes speed underpass in the auction hall with buyers at veilingbanken September 23 September 29 Purchasers on the auctioneer and the great veilingklok 09.37 banks, with connoisseurs eyes they see down on passing party tomatoes and melons 09.46 buyers in attention during the auctioning 09.49 nice party melons comes from the underpass 09.57 pointer of the auction clock. Two blocks on the auction block within the circle lights on. The number of the seat of the buyer and the specified bid price 10.04 Eindleader 10.27 END