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Kan family at the airport and beach

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.183.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4426 | Film ID: 2474

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    Kan family at the airport and beach

    Overview

    Description
    Betsy and Robert exit the house carrying small shovels. The children exit a car and walk towards the camera. Two boys (Robert is on the right) run towards the camera. Betsy waves from a balcony. EXT large house. Pan down to a woman walking down a hill. 01:00:42 Several children and two adults in a field. The children pick things up from the ground. Children sit on a balcony ledge. Robert waves his arms around. Frits enters the screen and stands behind the children, swings Robert back and forth. 01:01:16 Adults sit around a table playing cards and looking at the camera. Pan across the group, several children are standing at left. Sunset, beach, water. 01:01:43 Jeanne and her parents walk towards the camera. It is daytime. Bus, small building, and flagpole in BG. MSs, airplanes taking off and landing. Pan across the airfield. 01:02:28 INT, Robert and Betsy stand in a room with their hands on their hips, then wave to the camera. EXT, Betsy, Robert, and an unidentified girl stand next to a balcony rail. Children, wearing hats, walk towards the camera. 01:02:48 Children swim in a pool. Beach, people in the pool. 01:04:05 Children go down a slide on the beach. Adults in swimsuits and robes wave to the camera from balcony ledge, then walk down to the camera's level. The camera follows two adults walking in the water. Betsy flies a kite. Robert digs in the sand. 01:05:43 Woman and the two children hold the kite string. More scenes from the beach include the children getting pony rides on the beach and pushing each other off a sand mound. 01:07:00 EXT, Robert plays with an electric train set. He looks at the train going in circles and at the camera. Frits (?) puts the train back on the track. Children play in the sand, run in the water, and pose for the camera at the beach.
    Duration
    00:08:58
    Date
    Event:  1935
    Locale
    Zandvoort, Netherlands
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein
    Contributor
    Subject: Robert F. Kan
    Biography
    Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring from the government, he became a Certified Financial Planner. He was a lifelong Boy Scout and accomplished philatelist. He was married for 58 years to Francisca Verdoner Kan and had three daughters, Jeanette, Susan, and Eleanor.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:03:00 to 01:09:01:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2474 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2474 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
      Master 2474 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2474 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
      Master 2474 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2474 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
      Master 2474 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2474 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2474 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2474 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2474 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2474 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2474 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2474 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2474 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2474 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The Kan family collection of 16mm films was jointly donated by siblings Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2002.
    Film Source
    Robert F. Kan
    Ms. Betsy Klein
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4750
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:05:54
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