CitySkip Featured Video – April 20, 2009 | Short film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20240229_1 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode deab5515-d0de-453d-9c8d-f4074a39d03b
April 20th, 2009 , TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels was featured as the most popular video at CitySkip.
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CitySkip Featured Photo – April 20, 2009 | Storyboard film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20240229_2 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode 0af46f73-5df8-4aaf-812a-355553775dd3
TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels February 28th, 2009, Brussels. Day two, of my encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation outside in the Royal park in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. One of the stills and establising video shots made that Saturday morning after finishing long take video recordings of the installation, during a walk from our hotel in the Leopold (European) Quarter via the Royal park direction the historic centre of Brussels. That weekend break in Brussels, today 15 years ago, turned out to be a turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels was published.
8. First Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240227 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/02/27 | TakeNode cf0dd64d-4512-4846-8bce-6b2d8cca24ef
9. Camera used for both photo and video (720p HD video) of the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels is the Sony DSC-T500 which has a CCD sensor – with global shutter – thus not affected by rolling shutter distortion while panning the installation.
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February 28th, 2009, Brussels — my first encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. Turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film was published.
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In 1940, the dutch teen idols Johnny and Jones, even though they were Jews, were able to continue performing under the Nazi occupation without too many problems. The Amsterdam duo sang jazzy Dutch songs with a mock American accent and a parody of current events.
Blackout means black!
July 1940 Johnny and Jones sang a parody on the Blackout , the dutch song ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ (make it dark in the dark).
Later during World War 2, in 1943, they were deported to the Nazi death camps. They died of exhaustion in the last days of the war in 1945 (see Notes).
Still image in film : Poster for the single ‘Maak het donker in het donker’.
Lyrics ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ | Johnny and Jones (1940)
De overheid heeft het publiek bevolen Als het donker is dan moet het donker zijn ! Er mag geen enkel licht naar buiten schijnen Doe verduisteringspapier voor je gordijn Anders staan ze ’s avonds aan je bel te bellen En dan komt de luchtbescherming je vertellen :
Refrein: Maak het donker, maak het donker in het donker Ook al gaan de sterren door met hun geflonker Ik loop langs de huizenkant Met mijn luchtbeschermingsband Een lantaren in mijn hand Om te kijken waar iets brandt Houdt dus rekening met de verduisteringswensen Maak het donker, reuze donker beste mensen ! Refrein
Het blokhoofd van blok zeven uit wijk negen Zag de dochter van het wijkhoofd uit blok tien Met een rood hoofd kwam hij blokhoofd negen tegen, Hij zei hoofd, heb jij het wijkhoofd ook gezien ? Ik heb in het hoofd gezet het wijkhoofd te gaan vragen , Of die wijkhoofd-(griet/strike?) mijn blokhoofdnaam wil dragen : Refrein
Van Zanten zag een meisje in het duister, Zij was slank gevormd en toch niet dik van lijn. Hij dacht, dit is de jonkvrouw mijner dromen, Binnenkort zal zij mevrouw Van Zanten zijn. In de duisternis vroeg hij haar om een kusje, Flip van Zanten zei zij toen, ik ben toch je zusje ! Refrein
Music : Maak het donker in het donker | Text & Music by Johnny and Jones (1940). Recorded in Vara-studio, Hilversum, 19 july 1940. DH2051. (Varagram 7175). | Wikimedia Commons
Film (image) : edited from Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 36, September 1940 (under nazi rule) | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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‘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’.
Citation : ‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland | 20231123 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | TakeNode 4f388407-5ccc-4816-aef6-6064fcee35b2
