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Unknown holiday-movie 014 (1930)

1930 · Short film · 7 min

Synopsis

An anonymous Dutch home movie of the 1930s from the Filmcollectief archive.

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Running time
7 minutes

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Registration Tags · silents_are_golden · 2011-01-26

One of the scenes in this film shows a UK registration tag with the prefix 'GZ'. This would indicate that its a Northern Ireland tag. Could be Belfast?

Licenseplates in The Netherlands · Filmcollective Worldwide · 2011-01-26

From 1906 a new licenseplate system was used in Holland. The driver needed a driverslicense and a licenseplate including documents (for "insurance" but it is of course tax and to catch you easily when you drive a few miles too hard on the highway to sent easily the speedingtickets to your house-adress but that is another discussion) These licenseplate documents were given by each Province of Holland. Because of that, every licenseplate started with one or two letters to pinpoint to a certain province. The uses codes were the following: A : Groningen B : Friesland D : Drenthe E : Overijssel G…