Colorful Holland (1950)

• 63%
• 1950
• Documentary
• Ralph Donaldson

We begin with waterways: a milkmaid rows to her station. Agriculture is crucial: we see cattle and fields. Then, a trip to Alkmaar for Edam cheese market day. Next, the pageantry of Utrecht and villages of the Zuiderzee: Spakenburg, a fishing village, in an area where each town has a style of clothing; the women, in particular, are colorfully dressed. Next, Hoorn and its architecture and the fancy headgear of Staphorst. We watch men and boys in the field in this densely populated land. After work, there's time for a bike ride. The storks are gone from the roofs, but nests remain, as does a post-war optimism in this democratic land of small property owners and no poverty.