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12 October 2009
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Dutch Tulips and Cloggs is a pair of travelogue fragments from the 1920s. The footage that has been digitally presented for this website is quite interesting for artistic reason and, in some sense, sociological ones.
The first part of the film (approximately the first 2 minutes and 40 seconds) is a stencil-tinted sequence set in a Dutch tulip farm and flower shop. This sequence is very beautiful to look at: even the static shots of cut tulips being stacked for shipment to stores are extraordinarily beautiful because of the stencil tinting. The artistry of the tinting is astonishing. About 50 seconds into the film there is an in-camera dissolve, where two shots are joined by a smooth transition. While dissolves were a commonplace film technique in 1920s filmmaking, the smooth transition of the color tints laid on top of the black and white images was harder to acheive. I also liked one of the scenes in the flower shop, where the women packaged the tulips for sale. This scene exhibits a lovely play of light and shade (the result of being shot in what appears to have been natural light), and also has stencil tinting laid over it. This is a simple scene but truly I enjoy its artistic rendering of simple activities. The film makes a beautiful spectacle out of everyday activities.
The second half of Dutch Tulips and Clogs is in black and white. It does not seem quite so compelling to me as the first part of the film. It shows the people of the Island of Mark, dressed in the traditional outfits and wooden shoes of their community. It is interesting to see how the traditional garb of the Dutch was being preserved into theearly part of the twentieth century; but this part of the film seems a little more "staged" than the earlier scenes of tulip farming and selling.
This is a nice little travelogue, beautiful and interesting throughout its short length. Whatever one thinks of this genre of nonfiction filmmaking, this particular film is worth watching.
Posted by: Brendan C. Burchill | 02 October 2010 at 20:57