Film

Awkward transport of equestrian statue through Amsterdam

Polygoon-Profilti (producent)

At the Europeana

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The Amsterdam sculptor Paul Koning has made an equestrian statue in his studio. It's so big it can't get out the normal way. Therefore, amid great public interest from older and younger Amsterdammers, part of the studio's outer wall is broken away so that the statue can be transported outside. Police on horseback are supervising. Because the sculpture is also too large to be loaded in the narrow street, it is first transported, hanging from the cables of a crane truck, to a square where it is hoisted onto a trailer.

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