Islet Isolation Assessment • 4th IPITA Amsterdam 1993 • @1MEMO 20260201

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Slideshow (handout slides, partially remastered) of my talk titled ‘Assessment of islet isolation efficacy in dogs’ presented at the 4th International Congress on Pancreas and Islet Transplantation (4th IPITA), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 1MEMO_20260201_1 • TakeNode 628b273c-b8e1-4e23-8f8b-1550c7960cb3 • PDF available below.

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Text of talk ‘Assessment of islet isolation efficacy in dogs’ presented at the 4th International Congress on Pancreas and Islet Transplantation (4th IPITA), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 1MEMO_20260201_12 • TakeNode 9bc525ba-dfdb-4d92-8af4-bdd21ee1faaf • PDF available below.

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The proceedings paper delivered at the 4th IPITA is included below in the Notes , as well as references of the related full papers and related chapters of PhD thesis.

This IPITA meeting in Amsterdam was also a good opportunity to catch up with colleague Nick London (see photo) from the Leicester (UK) group discussing our Leiden and Leicester islet isolation work using the University of Wisconsin organ preservation solution (UWS). The Leicester group were one of the first groups to examine and adopt our novel method of islet isolation in UWS.

Several groups reported at this 4th IPITA symposium on the effects of using (modified) UW solution (UWS) during islet isolation : Leicester (pig, human, islets), Oxford (rat, rabbit islets), Minneapolis (human islets), Paris (pig islets), and Giessen (clinical human allo islet transplantation).

Michel van der Burg (Leiden) and Nick London (Leicester) • 4th IPITA , Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Photo by Matthias Ohimer , Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO_20260201_3 • TakeNode c4451ac4-84fc-4068-823a-b475dc0bb35e • #islets #LUMC #transplant #IPITA #diabetes #Amsterdam #Leicester #Leiden

During the 4th IPITA, I discussed in detail the rationale of our UWS work, the important components of UWS, and basal solution for islet purification (Percoll-UWS) with Yoko Mullen (in particular) and her co-worker Charles Brunicardi (see photo) of the UCLA Islet Transplant Team (LA, USA)…contributing to the development of Yoko’s Los Angeles preservation solution #1 (LAP-1) patented in 1997 (see Notes, Patent US5679565A).

Michel van der Burg (Leiden), Charles Brunicardi (LA), and (? Norm Kneteman, Edmonton) • 4th IPITA , Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Photo by Matthias Ohimer , Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO_20260201_4 • TakeNode 93930fd4-ee21-4b18-90ca-83e1731102e1 • #islets #LUMC #transplant #IPITA #diabetes #Amsterdam #Leiden #LosAngeles #LA #Edmonton

The official founding meeting of the IPITA was actually at this 4th International Congress on Pancreas and Islet Transplantation — June 27–30, 1993 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) hosted by Dr. Reinout van Schilfgaarde (see photo).

Reinout van Schilfgaarde (Groningen) • 4th IPITA , Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Photo by Matthias Ohimer , Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO_20260201_5 • TakeNode 9a713895-1dc6-462a-9621-1160ddeb2d8e • #islets #LUMC #transplant #IPITA #diabetes #Amsterdam #Leiden

Below some of the photos I took during a break at the 4th IPITA in Amsterdam, near the Rijksmuseum (corner Spiegelgracht / Tweede Weteringdwarsstraat ) , and (Jane Field) at the congress venue (RAI Amsterdam).

Garth Warnock (Edmonton), Bernhard Hering (Giessen), Nick London (Leicester) • 4th IPITA , Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Photo by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO_20260201_6 • TakeNode 4a31bed0-8308-4a51-9291-06d53549ef3d • #islets #LUMC #transplant #IPITA #diabetes #Amsterdam #Leiden #Edmonton #Giessen #Leicester

Garth Warnock (Edmonton), Bernhard Hering (Giessen) • 4th IPITA , Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Photo by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO_20260201_8 • TakeNode ffbe0d97-be31-4dc9-bc94-9e2b708ccb47 • #IPITA #Amsterdam #islets #LUMC #transplant #diabetes #Edmonton #Giessen #Leiden

Jane Field (Minneapolis) • 4th IPITA , Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993 • Photo by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO_20260201_9 • TakeNode d1921eb6-2c38-49c2-9693-d288d940268d • #IPITA #Amsterdam #islets #LUMC #transplant #diabetes #Minneapolis #Leiden

Notes

Oral presentation 4th IPITA : Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Scherft JP, Prins FA, Bruijn JA, Gooszen HG. Assessment of islet isolation efficacy in dogs. 4th International Congress on Pancreas and Islet Transplantation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993.

Oral presentation (selection of slides Assessment of islet isolation efficacy in dogs). Van der Burg MPM. Workshop: Guidelines for the standardized assessment of retrieval and transplantation of islets. 4th International Congress on Pancreas and Islet Transplantation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 27–30, 1993.

Proceedings paper 4th IPITA : Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Scherft JP, Prins FA, Bruijn JA, Gooszen HG. Morphometry of native and isolated islets: a new approach to isolation assessment. Transplant Proc. 1994 Apr;26(2):632-3. PMID: 7513459 . PDF available below

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This slideshow had been presented earlier that year with a different title at the 12th Workshop of the AIDSPIT Study Group in Igls :
Oral presentation 12th AIDSPIT : Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Scherft JP, Bruijn JA, Prins FA, Gooszen HG. Quantification of islet isolation efficiency in dogs. 12th Workshop of the AIDSPIT Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Igls (Austria) January 24–26, 1993.

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Abstract 12th AIDSPIT : Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Scherft JP, Bruijn JA, Prins FA, Gooszen HG. Quantification of islet isolation efficiency in dogs (Abstract). Horm Metab Res 1993; 25: 52. 1MEMO_20260201_10 PDF available below.

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Corresponding Full Papers (Thesis chapters)

Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Scherft JP, Bruijn JA, Gooszen HG. Impact of donor-related variables on islet isolation outcome in dogs. Diabetologia. 1994 Jan;37(1):111-4. doi: 10.1007/BF00428786. PMID: 8150223 . Article PDF Free download.

Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Scherft JP, Prins FA, Bruijn JA, Gooszen HG. Assessment of islet isolation efficacy in dogs. Cell Transplant. 1994 Jan-Feb;3(1):91-101. doi: 10.1177/096368979400300113. PMID: 8162296

Chapters (2,3) Doctoral Thesis (corresponding with full papers) : Van der Burg MPM. Pancreatic islet transplantation: studies on the technique and efficacy of islet isolation and transplantation. (Doctoral Thesis, Leiden University, 1994), Paperback (1994, Nov 9) Boskoop: Van der Burg (ISBN 9080216410); E-book (2022, Oct 25) Boskoop: Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media ( ISBN 9789080216402). Retrieved (Dec 4th, 2025) from Leiden University Scholarly Publications, Persistent URL https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3486604 . PDF free download available via link.

Patent US5679565

Method of Preserving Pancreatic Islets , Mullen et al. United States Patent US5679565 . Download PDF https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/80/60/f6/744731dd250c48/US5679565.pdf

Online history of patent :
US5679565A – Method of preserving pancreatic islets – Google Patents URL https://patents.google.com/patent/US5679565A

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Entero Insular Axis • @1MEMO 20250123

Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic-System • Michel van der Burg • Miracles.Media • @1MEMO 20250123_1 • TakeNode 5b4fa0c5-cecb-45ba-aa39-6df4c833ed43

My first slide in the January 1988 Workshop of the Dutch Diabetes Research Society* in Oosterbeek, Holland, on our new Pancreas & Islet Transplantation Program that had just started in 1988, introduced this still undeveloped field of research the Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic-System (1).

This system ( GEPS ) in which the gastro-intestinal hormones influence the secretion of insulin and other hormones from the pancreatic islets – the “entero-insular” axis – is changed in transplantation of the pancreas or isolated islets of Langerhans.

Insulin feedback on the gut hormone CCK • Michel van der Burg • Miracles.Media • @1MEMO 20250123_2 • TakeNode ac392976-fa14-4d1e-95bb-84e5808ee443

Evidence of insulin feedback on the gut hormone CCK was presented with this poster the next year at the Holland Digestive Disease Week congress in the RAI in Amsterdam (2).

Notes

1) Workshop of the Dutch Diabetes Research Society*, Oosterbeek (The Netherlands) January 22–23, 1988.

2) Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Gooszen HG, Jansen JBMJ, Frölich M, Lamers CBHW. Evidence for insulin-feedback on fasting CCK in dogs. Holland Digestive Disease Week, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 21–24, 1989.

* NVDO – now known as : Dutch Association for Diabetes Research – https://www.nvdo.online/en/homepage-english/
Award – The year before I received the Dutch Diabetes Research Society 1987 Master’s
thesis award for my master’s thesis “Effect of cyclosporine-A on the endocrine pancreas”
(received at the Spring meeting of the Dutch Diabetes Research Society, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 4, 1987).

Update 20250124 – added NVDO details and 1987 award master’s thesis “Effect of cyclosporine-A on the endocrine pancreas”

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Polygoon Journalist Jo Levi • 20241107

The unique 1935 sound film of the Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue Choir (1,2,3) was made by the popular Polygoon journalist Jo Levi.

Wondering who Jo Levi was , I searched online, and found this picture below (20241107_1) with Jo Levi.
Jo Levi is the second man from the left in this postwar photo of Polygoon men, posted by former Polygoon editor Fredo Krooshof at Cinecentrum Hilversum (4).

Polygoon Men • Miracles•Media • 20241107_1 | Source Cinecentrum Hilversum : Left to Right : Cees v.d. Wilden – Dir. Polygoon Haarlem; Jo Levi – Red. Pol.jnl; Philip Bloemendal – Red. and comm. Pol.jnl; Man in the background – name unknown; Gé Bresser – Procurator Polygoon; RVD man – name unknown (4).

Jo Levi together with Philip Bloemendal directed the Dutch cinema news for Polygoon. Philip Bloemendal , nicknamed “The voice of the Netherlands” , was for 40 years (from 1946 to 1986) the Dutch cinema newsreel announcer, voice-over, and editor . His voice-overs are The Voice of the postwar Dutch Polygoon news reels.

“Where they are not, nothing is happening” was the motto (5) of the cameramen of the Polygoon newsreel company in Holland.

May 1931 , two dutch newsreel companies, Polygoon in the city of Haarlem, and Profilti in The Hague, were competing to have the premiere of the first Dutch cinema newsreel with sound.
Below a May 17, 1931 Polygoon interview (6) with former cyclist and sportsman W.W. van der Vet on the occasion of his 85th birthday (20241107_2).

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The interviewer, most likely Jo Levi, looks at the camera for a moment , captured in this film still shown below ( 20241107_3).

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Notes

1. Amsterdam’s Choir of the Great Synagogue 1935 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20190830 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/08/30/amsterdams-choir-of-the-great-synagogue-1935/

2. 1935 Sound Film Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue Choir • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20241025 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/10/25/1935-sound-film-amsterdams-great-synagogue-choir-20241025/

3. 1935 Sound Film Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue Choir • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20241025 • URL https://michelvanderburg.substack.com/p/1935-sound-film-amsterdams-great

4. Cinecentrum Hilversum. URL https://www.cinecentrum-hilversum.nl (Retrieved Oct. 25, 2024).

5. Polygoon (newsreel). Wikipedia (Retrieved 20241107). URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygoon_(newsreel)

6. Opa Vet (sportopa) voor de microfoon. Published 17 May 1931. Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (producer) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Open Beelden archive)

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Geluidsopname ter Groote Synagoge • NIW 15 Nov 1935 • Miracles•Media • 20241025

Friday, 15 Nov 1935 • NIW (1)

“Sound recording at the Great Synagogue

The jubilee of the N.I.H.S., which has attracted interest in our community in many circles, has also attracted the attention of Polygoon, the well-known sound journalists. They wanted to record something specific of this jubilee and in honor of the jubilee on the sound film and insert it as part of the cinema newsreels this week.
Chief cantor I. E. Maroko and the synagogue choir, led by his well-known conductor S. H. Englander, were prepared to perform a synagogue song. And so the recording took place last Wednesday evening in the Great Synagogue. When we came to take a look at the Synagogue, which was already decorated for the occasion, at 8 o’clock, all preparations had been made. A number of lamps, together 25,000 candles strong, provided sufficient lighting. The choir sang Psalm 118, while Mr. Maroko sang the solos. The recording, which was made under the direction of the popular Polygoon man Jo Levi, and in which Max Tak was present, will certainly attract the interest of the cinema-loving public and for those who do not regularly go to the cinemas, we can certainly recommend a visit this time.”

This NIW 1935 news (1) describes the ‘sound film’ was made Wednesday 13 Nov 1935 under the direction of Polygoon man Jo Levi. Below the ‘sound film’ and first part of my description, as posted Aug 20, 2019 (2).

November 1935, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the NIHS Jewish Community of Amsterdam (orthodox Ashkenazi congregation started 1635) the dutch film factory Polygoon brought this unique cinema sound newsreel of the Amsterdam Choir of the Great Synagogue led by choirmaster Samuel Henri (Sam) Englander, with a solo perfomance by chazzan (cantor) Izrael Eljasz Maroko in the Great Synagogue (inauguration building 1671) – now home to the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, Holland (2).

Notes

1. Today I found this article on the Polygoon ‘sound recording’ (2) in the dutch weekly ‘Nieuw Israelietisch weekblad’ (Transl: New Israelite Weekly) of Friday, November 15, 1935. URL Delpher.nl (retrieved 20241025) .

Dutch transcript

Geluidsopname ter Groote Synagoge

Het jubileum der N.I.H.S., dat de belangstelling in vele kringen op onze gemeente heeft gevestigd, heeft ook de aandacht getrokken van Polygoon, de bekende geluidsjournalisten. Men wilde n.l. iets specifieks van dit jubileum en ter eere van het jubileum op de geluidsfilm vastleggen en dit deze week als onderdeel in de bioscoopjournaals inlasschen.
Oppervoorzanger I. E. Maroko en het sjoelkoor, onder leiding van zijn bekenden dirigent S. H. Englander, werden bereid gevonden om een synagogaal gezang ten gehoore te brengen. En zoo vond Woensdagavond j.I. de opname plaats in de Groote Synagoge. Toen wij om 8 uur een kijkje kwamen nemen in de reeds in feesttooi gestoken Synagoge, waren alle toebereidselen getroffen. Een aantal lampen, tezamen 25.000 kaarsen sterk, zorgde voor voldoende belichting.
Het koor zong Psalm 118, terwijl de heer Maroko de soli zong. De opname, welke onder leiding van den populairen Polygoonman Jo Levi geschiedde, werd vervaardigd en waarbij o.a. Max Tak tegenwoordig was, zal zeer zeker de belangstelling van het bioscoopminnend publiek trekken en zij, die niet geregeld in de cinema’s komen, kunnen wij ditmaal zeker een gang daarheen aanbevelen.

2. Amsterdam’s Choir of the Great Synagogue 1935 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20190830 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/08/30/amsterdams-choir-of-the-great-synagogue-1935/

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Swinging Stars 1935 | 20240122

After the monster film congress in Berlin, a swinging Saturday night 23 March 1935 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at The First Dutch Film Ball (Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal) organized by the dutch film world (with Loet Barnstein, …Ehrlich…Hamburger…Willy Mullens…Max Tak…Abraham Tuschinski…Kor Postma) both to celebrate the film world and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year (the Christmas and Easter weeks), money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas, but because of the Great Depression donations are shifting from ‘silver’ to nickel …copper . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas. The newspapers wrote, those present will be filmed, and if allowed by the police , the film will be shown the same night, and many movie and theater stars, filmschlagers, to be present … Harry Baur, Henriette Davids, Jopie Koopmans, Kid Johnson, Reri, Johan Kaart, Frits van Dongen, Henk Alsem.
Dutch news bulletin De groene Amsterdammer had a picture (collage?) with prominent guests (or impersonations?) : Gloria Swanson, Max Tak, Jean Harlow, Loet C. Barnstijn, Norma Shearer, Dr. M. de Hartog, Lupe Velez, Louis Davids, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Sylvain Poons, Myrna Loy, Mariene Dietrich, Wethouder Boissevain, Kor Postma, Theo Ketelaar. And a dutch cinematography news bulletin reported ‘the expected foreign stars were conspicuous by their absence’.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1935 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121 | Miracles•Media

Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal. De Gooi- en Eemlander 13-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011171806:mpeg21:a0107

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Het eerste filmbal in Nederland. Delftsche courant 19-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB08:000076473:mpeg21:a0043

Het eerste Nedrlandse filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk 25-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB15:000891071:mpeg21:a00067

Nieuw weekblad voor de cinematografie, jrg 13, 1935, no. 26, 29-03-1935 | URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMEYE02:001535013:00039

De groene Amsterdammer, jrg 59, 1935, no. 3016, 23-03-1935 URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB30:021531012:00014

Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121

‘Everything’ song with movie stars Dolly Haas, Pierre Blanchard and dancing star imitators Saturday night 21 March 1936 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at the second annual ‘film ball’ organized since 1935 by the dutch film world both to celebrate and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year, money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1936 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Filmbal Carlton. De Zaanlander 14-03-1936. Delpher | URL
https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMGAZS01:000093042:mpeg21:a00044

Voor het Bio-vacantieoord. Algemeen Handelsblad
18-03-1936. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010664659:mpeg21:a0209

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Bio en de Bioscopen. URL https://www.biovakantieoord.nl/nl/over-ons/bio-en-de-bioscopen

Nederlands(ch)e Bioscoopbond. Eye. URL https://filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/article/nederlandsche-bioscoopbond

Turn .. “Draaien” .. Filmland 1934 | 20170724 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/07/24/turn-draaien-filmland-1934/

Breaking News – Polygoon sound film David Hamburger 1931 | 20190826 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/08/26/breaking-news-polygoon-sound-film-david-hamburger-1931/

Blackout…Johnny and Jones 1940 | 20240118

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).

Notes

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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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