Home Movies: Can 10845: Holland, Michigan Collection (1940)

★★★★★ · Tulips, Tulips, Tulips! · donwert · 2013-12-16

Silent home movie of the Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan from 1940. The film is remarkable for its beautiful color---you feel as though you've gone back in time! The first part features the parade down Holland's main street complete with folks in wooden shoes and old world costumes. I suspect the Tulip Festival today looks very much like this one except for the clothing of the spectators. The last half of the film shows townsfolk planting tulip bulbs along the curbs of a neighborhood.

★★★★ · Go Dutch! · Spuzz · 2017-12-11

Somewhat crazy home movie taking place in Holland Michigan, a city which I never knew existed. Apparently everything is Dutch Dutch Dutch there, at least according to this film. Parades! Tulips! Wooden shoes! It's all here in great abundance. So much so that I truly began wondering about the sanity of the people living here lol. It's lovely though, but a bit too much.