

A unique opportunity to take your kids on a deep dive into Dutch animation history.

Come and watch the flying demonstrations above Amsterdam-North. Promotional film for the E.L.T.A., first aviation exhibition Amsterdam. This is an animated advertising film for the First Air Traffic Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1919.




The plot of the film follows a humanoid sand person who creates living creatures from sand in a desert of some unknown location. He then initiates a plan: that they create a sand castle for them to reside in. With each other's help, the sand castle is eventually completed and the sand characters celebrate. The celebration is cut shortly when wind begins to blow and covers up the sand castle, with the sand characters retreating inside for safety. The viewer may possibly assume that, once the wind dies down, the characters would eventually resurface and start over again and that this cycle could continue endlessly.
The film was created with sand animation and sand-covered foam rubber puppets.