Identity Photographs: Netherlands 1940.

Nederland laat zich fotograferen voor het identiteitsbewijs (The Netherlands Has Its Photograph Taken for the Identity Document) is a Dutch cinema newsreel produced by Polygoon-Profilti and released on 17 September 1940, four months after the German occupation of the Netherlands began. The film records people queuing to have identification photographs made as new identity requirements were being introduced under the German authorities. People over the age of fourteen were required to carry identification, and the resulting documents required a photographic portrait. The newsreel shows customers being photographed both by a street photographer and inside a professional photographic studio, including close views of individual sitters and a sequence showing the photographer repeatedly making portraits. Running for just over one minute, the film provides a concise record of the practical process through which portrait photography became connected with identification and administrative control in the occupied Netherlands.

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Nederland laat zich fotograferen voor het identiteitsbewijs (1940).
Produced by Polygoon-Profilti.
Source: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid / Open Beelden.
Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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