In our fifth episode focusing on the travel films of Oom Willem van den Berg, we tour through Europe. The year is 1928, and this time they visit the “real” Venice and drive through the snowy Swiss Alps.
For those new to the series – we explore the 16mm films left behind by the late Willem van den Berg, a Hollander by birth who settled in the Levubu area in the early 1930s. We were able to convert 17 of the “home movies” he made almost a century ago, and we have already spent many hours ...