''Heavyweight'' contest (Week number 55-05) 🔴
Channel: Creative Commons Media
Date: 2018-02-07

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Content by: Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)

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Publication Date: 22 January 1955

Description: Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Description (more): The contest for the most heavy man in the province Utrecht is being held in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht. Heavy men are being measured with a cheese scale from Alkmaar. Piles of cheeses from Alkmaar are used as counterweight. Mister Van de Zwaard wins eventually (390 pounds).

Contributor Information: Bailey, Philip (comment)