The interviewees talk about the time they worked at the Haarlem film production company Multifilm. During the interview with Gerdes, his wife is present in the background. Van den Berg, trained as a lawyer, joined Multifilm in January 1939 as a secretary and procurer. She also did “odd jobs” such as printing and projecting. Gerdes was a cameraman and screenwriter. He became a permanent employee in 1948, although before that he had made commissioned films for the Haarlem company as a free-lancer. Rouw (b. 1914), who by his own admission had originally wanted to become a ship’s cook, was hired in 1929 as an errand boy by Multifilm founder J.C. Mol. He developed into a cameraman and laboratory assistant. In 1958 they all joined the newly established television production company Cinecentrum in Hilversum, which merged Multifilm, Polygoon and Profilti.

Interviewees:

• Zus van den Berg
• Willem Gerdes
• Tjerk Rouw

The collection consists of 18 recorded interviews with inhabitants of Haarlem about the history of the city and the region between 1940 and 2010. The aim of the project was to visualise the development of Haarlem from 1940 until today on the basis of interviews with inhabitants of Haarlem and its surroundings. With this information, all clients of the Noord Hollands Archief (NHA) can use the interviews as illustration material or source for their research, thesis or paper. The subjects on which the persons to be interviewed were selected ranged from the Second World War and other political developments from 1940 to the present, urban development (both the construction of the city and its social developments), culture, education and science, and health care.

1 Gerrit Jonker (1916)

2 Krijn Haasnoot (1923)

3 Marinus Fuit (1934)

4 Iede Bloemsma (1921)

5 Jan de Bruin (1920)

6 Dirk Johan Enschedé (1923-2015)

7 J.F.M. van de Louw (1936)

8 Michel van der Plas (alias Ben Brinkel) (1927-2013)

9 Ben Endlich (1916-2006)

10 Luus van Dusschoten (1930-2012)

11 Mrs M.D. Voet-de Landmeter (1920)

12 Jan Reehorst (1923)

13 Henk Wieringa (1931)

14 Truus Menger-Oversteegen (1923-2016)

15 Frans Tames (1946)

16 Jan Haverkort (1951-2014)

17 Poppe de Boer

18 Johan Slinger