New Earth (Nieuwe gronden)
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NEW EARTH
A film by Joris lvens
Music Hanns Eisler
Singing J. v/d Broek
Sound montage Helene van Dongen
In 1920, according to the plan of engineer Lely...
...a massive assault on the sea began...
...with the objective of reclaiming 224,000 acres of fertile land.
The closing off of the South Sea...
...was the largest undertaking of this kind in the world.
Total cost: 1 billion guilders.
The South Sea is separated from the North Sea...
...by a heavy dike, 35 kilometers long and 96 meters wide.
The large inland lake that is created as a result of this...
...is divided by other dikes into polders and drained.
The dry sea bottom provides new fertile soil.
This submarine dam of boulder clay...
...is then covered in certain places with large pieces of rice wood...
...weighted down with rocks, to protect them from strong sea currents.
Construction of the sinkable objects in Den Oever.
Towing them to sea.
At the place where the object is to be sunk.
Dumping boulder clay
Crane boulder clay
Behind this dike of boulder clay...
...sand press machines press sand...
...through long tubes into a massive body of sand.
The dike is then protected above sea level...
...against the attacking waves by a stone slope.
The building material for the dike is boulder clay...
...which the South Sea itself provides.
Large dredging machines dredge this boulder clay...
...a tough type of soil...
...from the sea.
On the landside of the Afsluitdijk...
...apart from the dry ground...
...the lJssel Lake is also being formed.
The water that gathers there...
...from rivers and polders...
...will have to flow into the North Sea at low tide.
For the dumping of this superfluous water...
...draining locks are being built on either side of the Afsluitdijk.
De dike is being closed.
The sea resists its closure forcefully.
The current, created by the changing tides, grows stronger...
...and sometimes breaches the dike deeply...
...and those holes are then plugged plugged by unloading boats.
Closed.
The first earth, reclaimed from the sea.
The vast undertaking of closing off the South Sea...
...and draining the first polder, has been executed.
Ten thousand workers have been working in 2 shifts, 12 hours a day...
...for 120 months to gain this great wealth through incredible toil.
1932: 3,680 acres have been planted.
10.000 workers...
...working in 2 shifts...
...12 hours a day for 120 months have conquered new ground.
The bottom of the sea yields its riches.
The first wheat.
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