Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GINA DE LEEUW Amsterdam, Holland...
Joop Geesink, 39, is a ball-shaped Dutchman who runs the Dollywood Film Corp. in Amsterdam, where puppeteers, artists and moviemakers grind out some of the liveliest TV and theater commercials seen anywhere. Joop (pronounced yoop) supplies a few Michigan and California stations with beer commercials (Goebel Brewing Co.) which are so attractive that one station has actually received requests to "play it again." Most of Joop's commercials run about 20 seconds, feature remarkably lifelike, plastic puppets moving stringlessly, smoothly and expressively through slapdash roles. Only near the end of the "puppetoon" does the audience get the well...
When you climb out of the IRT subway at the Morningside Heights station, you are flanked on one side by the noisy, dirty Amsterdam area of New York, and on the other by Columbia University, a polyglot jumble of tall buildings and patches of grass, watching indifferently over the bustling metropolitan scene...
Your Invitation to Music (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Fifteen choruses from Bach's B Minor Mass by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. How eight Jews escaped the Gestapo for two years by hiding in an Amsterdam office building, recorded in the memorable journal of a teen-ager (TIME, June...