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"Amsterdam Diamond City"
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Week number 57-27
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
- Type:
- video
- Length:
- 01:51
- Publication date:
- 20 June 1957
- User:
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Source:
- WEEKNUMMER572-HRE000101B2
The exhibition 'Amsterdam Diamond City' in the Apollo Hall in Amsterdam, where diamond merchants and juwelers from twelve countries show their diamonds. With a.o. industrial uses, the Amersterdam 'Stedemaagd' with Aschberg diamond, the coat of arms of the UN in diamonds and the Hope diamond. Prof. Jelle Zijlstra, Minister of Economic Affairs, takes a look at a demonstration of the diamond cutting. Also footage of the guards during the night and the and an overview of the exhibition.
