Untitled movie, generally known as “Turkish dance, Ella Lola”. American vaudeville dancer Ella Lola (born Sep 2, 1883 in Boston) performs a period “Oriental” dance (commonly known as a belly dance) with some Turkish styling. Apparently filmed in Edison’s “Black Maria” studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Edit of a film published 7 October 1898 by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
Girls’ Gym Suit 1930 Cycling in Waddinxveen along Gouwe River | 20231210_1 | 1-memo•com
– (nederlands beneden / dutch below) –
EN – Confusing in this historical picture…those bare female legs on the bicycle ! While looking for another picture of the De Schoone Haas windmill from the paper factory along the Gouwe in Waddinxveen, I found a photo in the archives of the SAMH museum in Gouda with the mention ‘Freight ship in front of the Alblas timber trade, windmill in the background, after 1905.’ — above (20231210_1) an edited version with sharpening, and brightness adjustments.
At first glance I miss the sawmill of Alblas, and next to it the Remonstrant church – of which I previously posted moving images (1). Watching that film again shows that both buildings are further back – the Remonstrant church probably because it was a clandestine church – and therefore kept out of sight here. The film also shows this second Alblas building, on the water and close to the sawmill. Not far from the De Schoone Haas paper-wind-mill there was another windmill – De Nijverheid, of which an overview photo was recently posted (2). That windmill – De Nijverheid – is recognized here in the background of the photo. The Schoone Haas windmill, which was closer to the Alblas company, appears to have disappeared at this time. The blades of the De Nijverheid windmill are missing here. The Dutch windmill database mentions (info from Jacob Stolp) that the sails of De Nijverheid were removed in 1929, and the mill was demolished in 1932 (3). So this photo was taken around 1930.
At image analysis for dating, those cyclists with bare legs are initially confusing in such a historical picture. Closer inspection reveals that posing is taking place: the cyclist on the right in the picture is perhaps a boy, and is still standing next to the bicycle, which suggests that the others have just started cycling, with the young woman (girl) on the left not yet sitting straight. Over the past month I saw a lot of photographic images of life and work along the Gouwe up to about 1920, and I almost always saw the women in skirts down to the ankles, some down to mid-calf (4).
Above is an enlargement of the cyclists (20231210_2). The woman on the bicycle in the middle wears unusual clothing with short legs with elastic on the thighs, and over that a cardigan and large (shoulder) bag. Such fashion was found in women’s magazines from around 1930…such as the Modern Gym Suit in the American magazine The Delineator Aug. 1931, for juniors (5), with option to purchase a Butterick sewing pattern. Below is a collage of clippings (edited image) from this magazine of the one-piece v-neck gym suit… “One just steps into it from the top and fastens it on the shoulders. Simple to make.”.
Modern Gym Suit | 20231210_3 | 1-memo•com | @michelvanderburg | Edited montage of cuttings from The Delineator Aug. 1931
Such a One-Piece Gym Suit is also recommended in the 1932 catalog of the American Sears Roebuck with: “You will now find this suit standard equipment in many colleges and high schools, also used by dancers …. ” (6).
Bloomer – Women’s Rights
The ‘Bloomer’ – usually larger, see also that page in the Sears Roebuck 1932 Catalog (6) – goes back – in longer versions – to the 1850s.
Bloomer ca 1852 | 20231210_4 | 1-memo•com | A Poser for a Bloomer. By J L (monogram) ca 1852. | Bodleian Libraries Oxford University | Wikimedia Commons. CC BY
Satirical cartoon : In a reversal of genders, a “bloomer” asks her fiancé’s shocked father for consent to marry his son (Ref 7).
In general, women’s sport and activewear has helped emancipation (8).
John Noble’s 1895 ‘New Convertible Costume’ | 20231210_5 | 1-memo•com | Los Angeles Herald, 1895
John Noble’s 1895 ‘New Convertible Costume’ … appropriate for walking, golfing and wheeling. In: Los Angeles Herald, 1895 | Source K. Jungnickel in The Sociological Review (Ref. 8).
Dutch :
NL – Verwarrend in dat historisch plaatje boven…die blote vrouwenbenen op de fiets! Op zoek naar nog een plaatje van windmolen De Schoone Haas van de papierfabriek langs de Gouwe in Waddinxveen, vond ik in het archief van het SAMH museum te Gouda een foto, met vermelding ‘Vrachtschip voor houthandel Alblas, op de achtergrond molen, na 1905.’ Hierboven (20231210_1) een bewerkte versie (met verscherping, en helderheid aanpassingen) van die foto.
Op het eerste gezicht mis ik in die foto de houtzagerij van Alblas , en daarnaast de Remonstrantse kerk – waarvan ik eerder film beeld gepost heb (1). Bij weer bekijken van die film blijkt dat die beide gebouwen meer naar achteren staan – de Remonstrantse kerk waarschijnlijk omdat het een schuilkerk was – en daarom dus wat uit het zicht. Voorts laat die film ook dit tweede Alblas gebouw zien, aan het water en dicht bij die zagerij. Niet ver van papiermolen De Schoone Haas heeft nog een windmolen gestaan – De Nijverheid, waarvan recent een overzichts-foto is gepost (2). Die molen – De Nijverheid – wordt hier in de foto herkend op de achtergrond. De Schoone Haas molen , die dichter bij Alblas stond, blijkt dus op dit tijdstip al verdwenen. De wieken van molen De Nijverheid ontbreken hier. De Nederlandse molen database vermeld (info van Jacob Stolp) dat de wieken van De Nijverheid werden verwijderd in 1929 , en de molen in 1932 werd afgebroken (3). Deze foto is dus rond 1930 gemaakt.
Bij de beeldanalyse voor de datering zijn die fietsers met blote benen in eerste instantie verwarrend in zo’n historisch plaatje. Nadere beschouwing van de uitvergroting hierboven van de fietsers (20231210_2) leert, dat er wordt geposeerd : de fietser rechts in beeld is misschien een jongen, en staat nog naast de fiets, wat suggereert dat de anderen zojuist zijn gaan fietsen, waarbij de jonge vrouw (meisje) links, nog niet recht zit.
De afgelopen maand zag ik veel fotografisch beeld van leven en werken langs de Gouwe tot ca 1920 , en zag ik de vrouwen vrijwel altijd in rokken tot de enkels, een enkeling tot halverwege de kuit (4).
De vrouw op de fiets in het midden draagt aparte kleding met korte pijpen met elastiek op de bovenbenen, en daarover een vest, en grote (schouder-) tas.
Dergelijke mode werd teruggevonden in vrouwenbladen van rond 1930…zoals dat Modern Gym Suit in het Amerikaanse blad The Delineator Aug. 1931 , voor jongeren … ‘Juniors’ (5), met optie om een Butterick naaipatroon aan te schaffen. Hierboven ( zie Modern Gym Suit | 20231210_3 ) een collage van knipsels uit dit blad, van het gympak uit één stuk met V-hals … ” je stapt er van boven in en sluit het op de schouders – simpel te maken. “
Zo’n One-piece Gym Suit wordt ook aangeprezen in de catalogus uit 1932 van het Amerikaanse Sears Roebuck met : “Tegenwoordig is dit standaarduitrusting op veel hogescholen en middelbare scholen, alsook bij dansers…”(6).
Bloomer – Vrouwenrechten
De ‘Bloomer’ – doorgaans ruimer , zie ook die pagina in de Sears Roebuck Catalogus 1932 (6) – gaat terug – in langere versies – tot de 1850s.
Zie boven (20231210_4) de spotprent uit een krant/magazine van ca 1852 ‘A Poser for a Bloomer’ . In een omgedraaide genderrol vraagt een ‘bloomer’ de geschokte vader van haar verloofde om toestemming om met zijn zoon te trouwen (Ref 7).
In het algemeen heeft sportkleding en activewear voor vrouwen, geholpen bij de emancipatie.
John Noble’s 1895 ‘New Convertible Costume’ (beeld : 20231210_5 ) … appropriate for walking, golfing and wheeling … Los Angeles Herald, 1895 (Ref. 8).
Refs
1. Alblas Hout – 1920s Waddinxveen Works – Gouwe River | 20231117 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com 2. Windmills Hoop & Nijverheid ca 1898 in Waddinxveen Along the Gouwe River | 20231208 | 1-memo•com | @michelvanderburg 3. De Nijverheid, Waddinxveen. Ten Bruggencate-nr. 01213r. Nederlandse Molendatabase | URL https://www.molendatabase.nl/molens/ten-bruggencate-nr-01213-r 4. Markt – 1920s Gouda Works – Gouwe River | 20231127 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | URL https://1-memo.com/2023/11/27/markt-1920s-gouda-works-gouwe-river-20231127/ 5. The Modern Gym Suit – in the Junior assembly of smart new cloths – Delineator Vol. 119, No. 2 August, 1931 | University of Wisconsin Library | URL https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ANZCBWLRGZ4KWD8C/pages/APXEIY7ESINPKB8K 6. Gym suits, Sears Roebuck Catalog, 1932 in : The History of Fashion for Getting Physical | Summer Lee | The Vintage Woman Magazine | URL https://thevintagewomanmagazine.com/history-of-exercise-fashion/ 7. A Poser for a Bloomer. By J L (monogram) ca 1852. | Bodleian Libraries Oxford University | Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY. URL https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40711232 . Satirical cartoon about the Bloomerism movement. Girl in bloomers seeking consent to marry from her fiance’s father. Cutting from newspaper/magazine. Shelfmark: Fashion 19 (56) (subsection: Satire and reform movements: Bloomers and Bloomerism). 8. Jungnickel, K. (2023). Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940. The Sociological Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231153754
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Song sung by Isabella’s great-grandchild Ameet Kanon (aka Queen George) , who explained today – Friday , December 1, 2023 – at the premiere :
“The Abbey – it’s been so special and personal keeping you to myself, but your message was always too big for me not to share it …
… This is Isabella Weinreb Castegnier. She is my great-grandmother. On April 19th, 1943, pregnant with my grandmother, she jumped out of a moving train headed to Auschwitz. She was being sent to her death, simply because she was a Jew. She understood that it was now or never, die at the destination or die trying, so she jumped. In the years to follow this epic jump, the Abbeys of Brussels became a place of hiding, survival, and safety for them time and time again.”
‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland
American saxophonist Coleman Hawkins announces and plays – accompanied by Leo de la Fuente on piano – on his tenor saxophone ‘I wished that I were twins’.
In 1934, Coleman Hawkins left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and Amerika, moved to Europe, and joined the Jack Hylton Orchestra in England. Hylton and his band made regular ‘continental’ tours, and started another European tour January 1935 accompanied by Coleman Hawkins in Holland. At the end of January 1935 Hawkins joins the dutch band The Rambers … for 8 days … because Hawkins was denied entry to Germany because of his race, while Hylton and his band continued their tour without him and play for eight days at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
To end this special week with Hawkins well, the bandleader of The Ramblers – Theo Uden Masman – arranged with Decca for recordings 4 february 1935 in Pulchri Studio in The Hague, Holland, including this : I wish I were twins…that was also recorded on film by Polygoon (Polygoontoon) for the dutch cinema news for next week .
Coleman Hawkins is accomponied here on film by the dutch jazz pioneer Leo de la Fuente on piano , playing ‘I wished that I were twins’ . After the recordings, Hawkins moves further into Europe.
Leo – Leonard Henriques – de la Fuente, who was born Jewish in Amsterdam 28 March 1902, was deported by the nazi’s to Auschwitz on 2 November 1942, and died 30 April 1944 ‘somewhere in Mid Europe’.
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Tulips of blooming life and survival in Holland | 20231103 | Miracles•Media | Screenshot (Arte.tv) from Aux Pays-Bas, les tulipes de la prospérité / In den Niederlanden: Blühender Wohlstand
Excellent, to see the video work Tulip Bulbs War Food Holland 1944-1945 (Ref. 1) helping the ARTE European public service channel broadcasting next week all over Europe an excellent documentary about the cultural legacy of tulips in Holland , featured in the daily French/German TV show ‘Invitation au Voyage / Stadt Land Kunst.’
The French (FR) edition ‘Aux Pays-Bas, les tulipes de la prospérité’ is broadcast on Arte Tuesday 7 Nov. 2023 at 17:20 , and 8 Nov. at 8:40. The German (DE) edition ‘In den Niederlanden: Blühender Wohlstand’ 7 Nov. 2023 at 13:25 and 8 Nov. at 08:10 .
The documentary is an Arte & Elephant Doc coproduction , directed by Anna-Gaëlle Brault. In collaboration with Victoria Dehaut, documentalist, researcher (Elephant Adventures).
ARTE is a channel specialized in culture and known for its quality documentaries.
Arte.tv is streaming the docu online from 31/10/2023 to 05/01/2024 (Ref. 2, 3)