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Introducing Belgium Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221567-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s

Country: Belgium

Location: Bruges,Brussels,Ghent,Liege

TC Begins: 06:42:12

TC Ends: 06:52:42

Duration: 00:10:30

Introducing Belgium Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Bruges - canals & pretty old houses. Cathedral. Flemish art, oil paintings. 06:43:30 Ghent buildings & monuments. Street scenes & market scenes (GOOD). Tram past old fortress (Gravensteen?). Port scenes & activities - unloading goods - cotton. Cotton goods manufacture, industrial looms. Hydroelectric dam. Lion statues. 06:46:07 War memorials. Military cemetery. Tanks. British supply base near Antwerp. Supplies sent to British in Germany. Anti-aircraft school operating NATO anti-aircraft gun; radar. Belgian troops using Belgian-made FN rifles. 06:48:33 Liege - Gun manufacture; women workers & traditional design on handle. Archers in traditional costume drinking beer. Archery contest (incl. women). Liege steel mill. GVs city of Liege w/ smoking factory chimneys. Street scenes. Religious icon in street. Roads around Liege. Helicopter take off. 06:51:35 Brussels - Heliport, helicopter takes off. Montage: signs, Brussels traffic, street scenes & monuments. The End. Credits. Good quality - well shot. Post-WWII Propaganda; Tourism; Tourists; 1950s Belgium Daily Life; Post-WW2; NATO;

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