Old Style Houses Of Zaanse Schans (1966)

Near Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands OLD STYLE HOUSES OF ZAANSE SCHANS. G.V. The ’Zaanse Schans’, the area around the river Zaan with windmills and highly decorative wooden old-styled Dutch houses, newly built using the 400 year old designs. Some houses have a so-called ’death-door’ which is only used when somebody dies, and the real entrance is aside the house. Interior shots of the houses, with fireplaces which are beautifully decorated with tiles, wooden features and decorative mouldings. Various shots of the extraordinary and well preserved unique village with its many working mills. (Comb. F.G.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graph