# Potvis op het strand Weeknummer 70-03 - Open Beelden - 12563

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented. Captain Van de Velde from Breskens has brought a dead sperm whale from a sandbar in teh Westerschelde to the harbour of Breskens. With a winch the fish is hoisted on the shore. Prof. Brongersma of the State Museum for Natural History inspects the fish, which he bought for the museum, and employees of the museum dissect the fish. Also skeletons in the museum, a.o. of a sperm whale found in 1937.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1970
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potvis_op_het_strand_Weeknummer_70-03_-_Open_Beelden_-_12563.ogv)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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