# The Westland (HD)

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

Source: https://openbeelden.nl/media/956519/Het_Westland_HD.en

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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…

- Kind: Documentary
- Year: 1935
- Runtime: 10 min
- By: Creative Commons Media
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Westland_(HD).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Creative Commons Media
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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