b&w scenes of Harlem, NY - New York - African-American kids - Amsterdam News building and newspaper headlines about boycott in Brooklyn and Queens - bar with sign reading unescorted women not served, don't come in - sexism - sign Raided Premises - Baby Grand Club - Frank's Restaurant - theater marquee - ghetto - slums - inner city - cities - snowstorm - NYC - black history

JUN 28, 1999 STABBING IN LATIN QUARTER AMSTERDAM AVE AND WEST 96 ST, MANHATTAN -NYPD POLICE OFFICERS IN FRONT OF MCDONALD'S RESTAURANT AND LATIN QUARTER RESTAURANT SIGNS, FDNY EMTS, EMERGNCY MEDICAL TECHS, DAYTIME SCENE -STREET SIGN: BROADWAY AND WEST 96 ST, SUBWAY ENTRANCE, SIGN WARNING PATRONS OF NIGHT CLUB TO KEEP NOISE DOWN, EMTS ENTER FOR REMOVAL OF BODY

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ISSUE_NO = 1374A NO_OF_ITEMS = 8 ITEM_NO = 5 DESCRIPTION : News from Aberdeen where the month-old dispute has been settled. It was a question on Union Membership. CARD_FILE = 64742 CARD_TITLE : TRAWLERMEN'S STRIKE OVER SHOT_LIST : Various scenes in harbour of trawlers being prepared for sea. Men going aboard. GV of trawlers. Trawlers leave harbour. INDEX : Civil Strife - Strikes, Countries - Scotland, Geography, Water - Trawlers MATERIAL : CUTS: 02252 FEET_SHOT = 700 DATE_SUBD = 10/04/1955 ISSUE_NO = 1374A NO_OF_ITEMS = 8 ITEM_NO = 6 DESCRIPTION : YOUTH HOSTEL - at Holborn have started a class in beauty culture. AMSTERDAM - an Exhibition designed to show the laymen some of the secrets of the hotel business. CARD_FILE = 64733 CARD_TITLE : IMPORTANCE OF GLAMOUR SHOT_LIST : Holborn Youth Club - Shots of makeup expert rubbing cream into a girls face. CU of girl. Various shots of the girl putting on lipstick. Restaurant & Cafe Exhibition - Amsterdam - GV of crowds round table. CU of various tables. Cu of various dishes. CU pan shot of wedding cake. INDEX : Countries - Netherlands, Buildings - Clubs, Exhibitions - Food, Food and Drink, Fashion - Cosmetics MATERIAL : AKC 140 THOSE WERE THE DAYS TAPE: 80A FEET_SHOT = 77 DATE_SUBD = 10/03/1955

Beautiful, historic Amsterdam shot in the golden hour during Autumn.

This 1968 color promotional film produced by the McDonnell Douglas Corp. for Capitol International Airways touts the airline’s diverse tourist offerings, using heavy-handed narration and a survey of global destinations to lure potential travelers toward chartered luxury flights, focusing on a middle-aged demographic (TRT: 22:34).<p><p>A soaring bird and ethereal music. The image shifts to a negative. “You need envy the bird no longer” (0:07). “Here are your wings.” A Capitol jet airliner is revealed (0:57). Opening titles in montage: “Air Travel, Capitol International Airways presents Destinations… Unlimited” (1:18). A Douglas DC-8 jet airliner in flight. Passengers inside the cabin of the chartered jet (2:08). The plane’s captain pilots the craft in the cockpit with a co-pilot and navigator. Passengers board a DC-8 using an airstair. A flight attendant smiles as passengers file past. A bulletin board with posted flight plans (2:30). The pilots are given their flight paths (2:59). A Capitol jet takes off from a runway. A gondola in Venice, Italy, and another in Hawaii. London’s Tower Bridge. A guitarist and dancer in Spain (3:52). Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Frankfurt, Germany. Airstairs on the back of a pickup truck (4:24). A pilot’s hands on the control stick, with an instrument panel filling the frame. Inside the cabin, passengers look out from windows. A flight attendant brings a priest an in-flight meal (4:45). Closeup on a jet engine. A flight crew approaches a DC-8. A flight attendant speaks into a telephone receiver in German (5:21). A bird’s eye view of Frankfurt am Main. Medieval architecture of The Römer in the Alstadt. Frankfurt Cathedral. Fountains, bell towers. The Goethe House and museum. Henninger Turm, a circular restaurant atop a skyscraper (6:06). German pedestrians (6:58). Narration mentions “well-groomed and pleasant stewardesses.” A flight attendant training school discusses visas and currency exchange (7:21). Upon completion of the course, Capitol attendants receive logo pins. A military airlift command charter (9:03). A smooth runway landing. A zoom in on the tail of a DC-8. Pilots in shirtsleeves take a lesson. Passengers (9:19). Coastal views of Hawaii. Relaxing by palm fronds thatched roof huts. Surfboards on a beach. An outrigger canoe. Nakalele Blowhole (10:38). A trained dolphin show, crowds of spectators. A scenic bridge. Tropical flowers. Beachgoers Sailboats. Ice cream. Bathing suits. A pool with a diving board. Diners are served a fruit cup. Hula lessons for elderly women (12:02). A nightclub act. A man in silhouette lights a torch, then dives off a cliff (14:18). Executives and Capitol employees hold a meeting. Maintenance on the nose of a DC-8. Onboard equipment is inspected. Radar testing (15:00). Caterers prepare in-flight meals. Passenger check-in kiosks (16:31). Spain’s Sotogrande golf course. Spanish musicians. The Atalaya Park-Hotel and golf club. Golfers tee off, driving over a water obstacle, putting (17:05). Mediterranean roads and coastal dwellings. Tourists in sunglasses explore Casares, in Moorish Málaga. A poolside resort hotel. Nightclub entertainment (19:12). “In the age of jet flight, all things are possible.” Piazza Venezia in Rome. A review of previous scenes. “Listen to the sound of the jets… Be one with those who dream… And remember the soaring bird” (20:47). End credits: “Directed and edited by Donn Bates, written by Frank Ashe, 1968” (22:09).<p><p>Capitol Air was a charter airline operational in the United States from 1946 to 1984. It was founded as Capitol Airways, then renamed Capitol International Airways in 1967, around the time of this film. They were one of the first charter airlines to operate jet aircraft. During the late 60’s, the airline operated six Douglas DC-8 jets and three “stretched” Super DC-8s along with a fleet of piston engine propeller craft. In 1981, the airline became Capitol Air, and filed bankruptcy in 1984.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

b-roll of Dicky Dick and Rheinhold b-roll of Leopard Man crossing field INTERVIEW with Henk Schiffmacher HENK SCHIFFMACHER INTERVIEW REEL 38 DAVID ELLIS: Talk about the big picture of tattooing. And especially the traditional tattooing. What are you hoping to do with the Tattoo Museum. HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Uh, well, that sort of goes back to what...LET ME START ON THIS THING AGAIN... 04:06:36 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Uh, the basic of thing of the museum, the beginning of the museum and what the museum will finally end up to be is the fact that I started to do this thing in order to make a book. You know, I was in, I was a, I was a journalist, I worked for a Dutch magazine and I started shooting pictures of tattooed people and, at a certain point, I decided, all right, oh, let's go do a book on tattooing. Now, as soon as you start to collect stuff, in the beginning, you know, there's a lot of enthusiasm, and you think, oh, I'll write a book next year, but the more and more you look into the material, the more and more you look into what you got, uh, you find out that it's impossible to do a book in two weeks or in two years, or in, or in 20 years, because there is an enormous amount of [STAMMERS] of, of stuff hidden everywhere, because tattooing is a secret. Tattooing, the where and what is a big secret that will always be a secret, but that doesn't mean you're not going to go after the secret. I mean I spent most of my times in hunting down and trying to find, uh, the why or what with some crazy ass tribe somewhere in wherever. So like, you know, there's all these, yeah, there's no end to it, you, you looking actually at the, at the migration of people. You're looking actually, oh, in, in how the world grew, the whole evolution, uh, uh, and, and tattooing, there's always been tattooing and teh, and tattooing traveled with these people, inhabited, seh, still different places, influences from the places itself, like the times, eh, the types of wood, or the types of [STAMMERS] sh, eh, sharp stuff available, uh, uh, whatever. So there's no end to this, this whole deal. And the book should be, I mean like that's what I got, a way that, like, uh, uh, as a plan, like, okay, when I'm 65 and when I got my little place in the Pyrenees, in, uh, uh, I will sit down on the balcony while the wife brings me a cup of tea in the morning, and I will write the encyclopedia on tattooing, the A till Zed, the alphabet, in alphabetical order, on whatever is going on in this tattoo world. And that's a lot, that is a lot, especially when you look at all the ethnographic, uh... DAVID ELLIS: Why are you hoping to revive the traditions of tattooing in the Pacific? 04:09:15 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: I just can't stand the fact that Christianity..made this an evil thing, made this disappear in certain areas, uh, including, in the, in their own rites, you know, in their own, uh, I mean, like the, the concealing of, one of the first concealings, it was actually forbidden. While Christ had a tattoo, Paul was tattooed, tattoo was very common among, uh, uh, among the Jewish, uh, tribes. Moses is like the guy, where it's, where they make an end to it. The Mosanic laws said that there is no more tattooing -- there is only one sign upon the body as a, as a, uh, and that's the circumcision. Uh, what a hell of a place to give a sign that you are connected to the, to the, uh, something above there, you know. But, uh, uh so, since then, tattooing sort of, you know, it became forbidden. Jewish people, still, if they have a tattoo and they, and they died, they take the tattoo out of the body and bury it apart from the, uh, uh body. (WRONG) The whole fact that the Nazis came up with tattooing the, the, the Jews was actually, uh..a sick, but brilliant, uh, uh, uh, thing, because the, eh, the due, dehumaization process, this thing fitted right in there because Jews are not allowed to have a tattoo. So, nothing fitted better in than, than, than, than, than, than that aspect. DAVID ELLIS: You specialize in tattooing in the Pacific, but what about Europe? I know there's a long and winding tradition of tattooing in Europe. 04:10:59 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Well, I don't really specialize in tattooing in the Pacific, it's just one of those little things I would love to see that coming back. So, like, the, leh, in the last years, we sort of work over with a couple of people in the Pacific to see what we can do to help them out. So, like, if, there on I'll be sort of a tattoo missionary. And it's, it's coming back, it's, there is a lot of, like, uh, uh, uh, different young kids trying to pick it up, trying to find the designs again, we help them out here by, by going into the European files, because all these files are, of course, like from the Cook, for instance, from the Crucesstan voyages from the, uh, uh, Bougainville, uh, uh, all these, uh, uh, guys. So I help them out. But, like, here, I'm sort of also on the, uh, working on the "Return of the Pilgrim" tattoo. Which was a, uh, um, weh, tune, uh, weh, we're trying to open up a little shop in Santiago de Compostela, uh, next year, is a Holy Year, which means about 250,000 people will actually do the whole pilgrimage. And, uh, uh, some of them will, will get the old pilgrimage tattoo, uh, uh, again, like the whole Spanish Royal House used, used to have. And, there's Jerusalem Pilgrim tattoos, there is Italian pilgrim tattoos. And this is also a little bit, uh, uh, the aspect which made tattoos connected to that long journey, which, which gave the sailor, uh, uh, aspect you've come from somewhere far and you have your proof. You, you know, you know, the type of traveling you're doing does not allow you to buy a whole lot of shit like you do, do nowadays, bring a T-shirt for all the kids and, uh, a, seh, a couple of snow domes and, uh, of course, you have to walk all the way back, and there is thieves and, uh, uh, uh, rabies, and whatever. DAVID ELLIS: In 1780, when James Cook bumps into New Zealand and he sees Maori warriors. 04: HENK SCHIFFMACHER: In 1780, James Cook was already dead for a year. [LAUGHS] DAVID ELLIS: We'll back him up - two years, three years... HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Yeah, yeah, okay. 1776, I think he was in Hawaii or whatever, yeah. DAVID ELLIS: Why was it that the sailors were so fascinated? These were terrifying warriors? 04:13:23 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Tattooing, yeah. No, I don't understand the question completely. Tattooing existed already, you muh, you got to remember that tattooing existed already. It's not that Cook re-introduced tattooing as they often say. DAVID ELLIS: What do you suppose fascinated the English? Why weren't they just frightened? Why did they come to adopt and be fascinated and be proud of this notion of bringing tattooing back home? 04:13:54 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Tattooing existed. There was tattooing among the sailors already long before. I mean, like they didn't bring anything new home. DAVID ELLIS: Where did the tradition then, come from for seamen? 04:14:06 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: It comes from the long journey, it comes from the traveling. It comes from the proof that you have been somewhere. As a pilgrim you would go to Jerusalem, you would go with, uh, uh, with a Jerusalem tattoo. You would go to Santiago de Compusteli, you would come home with a Santiago tattoo. Like, you know, this is a, Santiago de Compustela cross. So, like, the crusaders were bringing back these tattoos from the Holy Land to prove that they were tattooed. The tattooing and the traveling aspect always ex-, eh, eh, existed. Eh, in primitive cultures, you will find that aspect, as well. Like the "long journey" to prove, because a long journey is adventurous, is dangerous. So like what you do, is you come back, you, you decorate yourself. Tattooing is nothing more than a non-verbal way of communication and is the same thing actually as Oliver North with his shit-load of medals on his chest. If you're “in,” then you can read this, so you will read, "Okay, there is two silver stars, there's two purple hearts, he, uh, he, uh, yeah, they shot him twice. He's been so many hours in active duty at the front." And it's readable. And it's, eh, it's communication. So, like, for anything brave, of course, you will ask not a little piece of decoration. And sometimes this helps you in the, in the hereafter to prove who you are and what you are and gives you a better seat, uhh, or bring you to the right spot. [TALKING] Uh, Sometimes it will protect you against stuff, sometimes it will help you heal. DAVID ELLIS: Let's talk about the relationship between a tattoo artist and the receiver of a tattoo. Why is that, what...? 04:16:01 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Ah, you know, like, [SIGHS] The relationship between tattoo artist and the receiver: uh, first of all, I'm not a person who really thinks too much about, you know, like the inner relationship. I do not feel something big or great, you know. You go talk to some, there is all kind of people who, like, you know, like, "oh, but it's such a binding of a..." Fuck all that shit. I got a straight business, somebody comes in, picks something, I stick something. So, like, it, it is, like, eh, a very easy to me. Uh, People disappear, I'll often never see the piece again. If I see the piece again, if I see the person again, I will never recognize the person - unless he shows me the tattoo to go with the face - then all of a sudden, like, I have the, uh, but, uh, I don't have a, a special... But, this is different for everybody. I mean, but the people who, who are getting tattooed -- them, if it's their first tattoo, I mean, there, for them, it's a big thing. It's like losing their virginity. I mean, they get down there like they're all nervous and they, they, they don't breathe right, like, some of them faint, because, like, it's you know, I, to them it's a big thing, you know, their first tattoo, because they have no idea how much it's going to hurt or what it is. And, they're not in, it changes your life, having a tattoo will definitely change your life. Especially when the thing is visible -- when the thing is on the hand, the thing is in the face, in the neck. If the thing is on the shoulder, on the back, you will not often, very often see it yourself, but, like, you will actually learn to manipulate with it: like you will wear stuff where you can see it or not see it, and, uh...well, it will change your life. DAVID ELLIS: Can you say anymore about that? I mean... 04:18:01 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Hell, I mean, like, I, eh, eh, the, the, the, the easiest sample of that fact is I used to, and I still do that on parties or, like, oh, whenever I'm on the, oh, on the beach, which is not too often, I have a field of kids want to have that stuff. So you draw on kids. And it has an enormous impact on, on, uh, on, on kids. You'll draw a big fucking eagle on their chest and they march up and down the beach like, uh, the, uh, a, first class macho. And they overreact. But, like, people will actually do that, uh, you know, people will act up, oh, to their tattoos. I've seen guys, they are, you know, like hardly able to kick their way out of a wet paper bag, with huge, uh, uh, uh, black panthers on them just to help them. Tattooing could actually, the way I see it, I, I could actually see a shrink say to a, cuh, a customer, "Well, sir, uh, we got it all sussed out for you, uh, you're going to go to the plastic surgeon, we're going to fuck up your eyebrow a little bit, we're going to, uh, take your nose bone out, and we'll put two tattoos on you and you're all done." [LAUGHS] You know what I mean, like that, that is, that is what it can do with you, it, it can, uh, it can give you a little bit of self esteem if you need that. DAVID ELLIS: What was it that made you start getting tattooed yourself? 04:19:27 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: It, it was, I was interested in tattoo, uh, long before and I started collecting stuff on tattoo long before. And I, I, I started collecting tattoos when I took the first slides of tattoo's peop, tattooed people and I saw my slides (and the slide is always a nice packed little bit of space, see, when you look at it, uh, uh, just out of, out lehl, out of your hand) and I remember, normally, you look at a picture and there is always a sort of a communication when you look at a photo, you want to, like, know and you interprep[SIC] stuff. So, like, by the hairdo and the guy's jewels, and his pose, eh, and, and his clothing, you sort of have an idea about what he is. But, like, it becomes a lot more clear if the guy is just fully packed in pin-ups or he's tattooed fully up with butterflies. So, like, there was a, an extra aspect of, of communication, which I really, really sort of liked. Which made me take all these pictures of tattooed people, and then slowly it became that, that, that, uh, that, uh, that collection. And then, I be-friended the guy called "Tattoo Peter," who was like a real Amsterdam legend, and I would be there every lunch break I had working here at the big department as a photographer, and, uh, well, you sit there for an hour or two hours and some crazy-ass Italian gets a small tattoo and he's like, you know, starting to shake and, like, fall out of his chair or whatever. So, like, there is, the, eh, that aspect of that, there is an interest in, like, well, how painful is this, or what is this, or, like, and, like, s-so I decide, well, you know, and after so many years, I should have one because I feel, like, eh, eh, and I started to feel naked in that whole scene. I mean, I was just going out every night, with fully-tattooed people, having nothing. I, weh, I, I went to tattoo conventions to take picture, my first tattoo convention was 1971 in Hamburg. I didn't have a tattoo -- I felt ashamed -- [LAUGHING] eh, so, I, I had to get at least one. DAVID ELLIS: What was the first one? 04:21:39 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Uh, then the whole intemeh-llectual[SIC] thing starts, you know, like what the fuck shall I get tattooed? So, like, a, a whole load of different things will past, pass by, leh, you know, like, of ideas and combinations and things: should I have a piece of art or shall I have; and, like, there is nothing, there's nothing in this Western society you need extra on your body to, like, uh, uh -- so it could be anything, you know, like, so, that, eh, im, im, immediately eliminated, uh, the whole lot and you end up with something like, okay, "I've got to have something which, at least, is close to me. So, like, I ended up with my Aries, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, sign, my, my, uh, uh, astrology, che, like the little skull here, I think it's 1973 or whatever. And it did hurt [LAUGHING] you know, the first one, damn, like, in, Peter used to, like, have these big machines with wooden grips and they would run them on 24 volts. They had six of them there for every color one. They would never change the damn needles. Uh, they had a bucket with a sponge where they would wash everybody, and if you would tell them, like, well, "I don't think this is too hygienic, uh, Peter," he would go, like, "What do you mean, I, I change the water every day." [LAUGHING] But, you know, then again, there was no HIV. I was, I mean, like, there was no, there was only one hepatitis. Uh, I don't think, uh, t-too much went wrong, oh, on, in those days. DAVID ELLIS: What is it that's made tattooing in Europe, at least, get so popular? 04:23:31 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: I always think there's only one institute responsible for that -- and that is MTV. You know, like, eh, the fact that you could, seh, see your rock 'n' roll heroes on TV, you know, and more and more this, they played in on this, the, thing, as well, because they became more and more visual, as well. The Stray Cats were, uh, some of, one of early bands, like, you know, and really using tattoo as an image. You know, they all, all had, were tattooed, using it as an image, as, as, as part of their whole, uh, being as band. And the video clips, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, started. So, like, people know exactly what the tattoo of their idol, uh, uh, is. I think, MTV is a, veh, a very much responsible for, uh, uh, the fact that tattooing became a fashion. DAVID ELLIS: I don't know if it's different in Europe, but, in America, I've met a hell of a lot of people who I don't think watch MTV, though maybe their influenced by it. 04:24:35 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: No, no, no, look, that's, that's, all, also not really what I mean. I mean like, of course, there has been the hippie days, and of course there's been the sexual revolution, eh, you know what I mean, but, and that all, all that shit helped. The, the bigger interest in the human body and whatever. But I'm talking about the last little bit, icing on the damn cake. And this is the last years. And, like, if you see the kind of stuff you're doing in this shop, then you'll know what I'm talking about, because you're doing them all the time. There's people coming in, want to be Anthony Kiddes, want to be, that after I tattooed Anthony Kiddes, in the basement, for a, a, a couple of years, this thing became a shrine. German kids, Italian kids would come to look at the basement where Anthony Kiddes was tattooed. And that, and, and like [SIGHS] it, it made it classified in different subcultures: so, like, everybody has his own little logos and all little signs, rock 'n' roll is a very, very big aspect in it. And yeah, of course, sexual revolution, a bigger interest in the human body, uh, there is perfume, men can wear makeup, of course, all that shit. But, that shit's way too theoretically, it's really that last little bit which made it really go boom. And, eh, there's all of a sudden a guy like John Pacouche, Jr. who starts gluing it on his T-shirts. So like, uh, I mean, that shit goes really, really fast. DAVID ELLIS: How are we doing with tape right now, James? PRETTY WELL. 04:26:10 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: And slowly the opening up of the tattoo worlds, you know, like, uh, and the first tattoo magazines, Easy Rider, uh, but all dated. I mean, the tattoo magazines, all you can blame them for is ac, actually ruining the whole fucking thing. I mean, there's nothing as bad for tattooing as the tattoo magazines. It is a lot of crap, what they, uh, uh, uh, uh, publish. They helped the fact that the suppliers' advertisements are all over the world now. In the old days, in the beginning, supplying was a, was a, was a secret thing. You would give secret information on tattooing from father to son. And it was a very, very hard profession to break into. And that natural, that filter, which was there, which made it really hard, I mean it was, really you had to apprentice and stuff, in a really, I mean people wouldn't give up, so easy, stuff. And that made a filter, people would get tattooed first all up, and then slowly would end up to being a tattoo artist. Now, you just call somebody, you get on WWW, point, dot, com, uh, on the e-mail or whatever, and you got your tattoo kit home. Including, like they advertise, that shit a couple of years, says like, uh, "Starter's Kit Tattoing, easy money, easy pussy." Uh, uh, I mean, like, uh, that's how the world looks at the, you, you look at the world now like the early seventies had 350 tattoo artists in the United States. We're talking 10,000, 12,000. I think there's almost 400 licensed just on the island of Hawaii. There used to be six. [LAUGHS] I started in Amsterdam being number four or number five. Now, I don't even know. DAVID ELLIS: Back to Pacific cultures. I'm really interested in the use of traditional instruments like the au in Samoa, in the thorn poking, in Papua New Guinea. Um.. 04:28:14 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Gehh, Tattoo techniques, there's, basically..well, there is, you know, like, as long as it is sharp and the skin is stretched well enough, you can, you can get in there with almost anything, you know, like with a sharp stone. And it all depends, the quality of tattooing has, uh, has of course, enormous-ly to do with the, uh, uh, uh, the refiners of, of, of, of, of the technique. And, when you look at, uh, uh, agriculture, uh, uh, uh, uh, societies, where people have time to go sit down at night and take a nice little knife and, you know, cut themself a really nice little tool, that's what tattooing has a better, uh, uh, level. If you got to like just grab a big stone somewhere and, uh, at night, and, and, and, uh, poke some, a couple of holes into somebody and throw it away again because you've got to travel, got to keep moving. You do not want too many tools, uh, with you. The most primitive societies, I think, people uh, uh, knew only 20 tools, and, uh, so, like, that's why tattooing is way cruder and, and... Eskimos used a needle and thread, uh, uh, uh, technique where they would dye the threads and, and just stitch it on the needle and pull the, uh, uh, the thread underneath the skin and leave the ink in their, uh, uh, there's been been m-methods where they open up the skin with a sharp stone and put the pigment in there. [CLEARS THROAT] Throughout the Pacific, they use bird bones, ss-shark teeth, uh, boar tusk, uh, whatever you can file, sharpen and, uh, uh, uh, and work with. CHANGE TAPE REEL 39 DAVID ELLIS: Okay, Rolling? Yeah, speed.... 05:00:45 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Now, this is, in fact, always the big question. Does it hurt, and what hurts more and what hurts less? Uh, the cruder, the t-technique is cruder, but, like, you know, like and also within the primitive society, there is a good guy, there is a bad guy, and there is a guy who doesn't sharp up his tools good enough and there is a guy, uh, who, uh, uh, is nonchalant and just beats it too hard and it goes too deep. So there's good ones and bad ones, I have seen, like, primitive tattoos with enormous amint, uh, uh, amounts of, like, cheloid reactions, uh, uh, uh, uh, on, on that. So, like, you know, somebody's been, like, hammering the shit out of the poor, uh, uh, uh, uh, guy. But, uh.... (TATTOO PAIN: electric machine vs. “hand-poked”) It is, it is very hard to say which one's more painful: the electric machine sort of, you know, like builds the pain up because it's going really fast. Now, in the middle of the leg, you're all right. But, once they get, like, you know, high up there or in the back of the knee, like, you know, uh, that hurts. That hurts. But then, again, there's four or five guys holding you down, holding the skin down so you ain't going nowhere. (Talking about the Samoan pe’a tattoo, an extremely painful multi-day ceremony where a traditional design is hand-poked in) And there's a big piece of pride packed into it. You're not going to be what they call a pea poullu you know, which means a chicken. A half finished, uh, pea on Samoa, you are, you're nothing. I mean, like, it, it's better not to be tattooed than to have a half-finished product. Not to be tattooed is a, is an acceptable thing. But, like, if you started it and you don't finish it, that's not acceptable. DAVID ELLIS: How is it that, in a place, like New Guinea, where I just saw some sixty year-old film where women are adorned with the poking of thorns? How is it, do you think, that in one society, like the Samoan and the Maori, where (mostly) it was men and not too far away in New Guinea, it was mostly women, I think. 05:02:48 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: This is very easy. [LAUGHS] It had, you know like, the Samoans have this legend, the Samoan have the legend of the two women swimming from Fiji to Samoa with the message that only the man, only the women should be tattooed. And halfway in their struggle at sea, they mix it up and come with the message that only the men should be tattooed, so that's why the Samoan men are tattooed. And women are tattooed in Fiji. Uh, yeah, this is a, you know, like, why with the men, or with the women? Mostly the men in those societies are also tattooed, but is a little bit and smaller. Uh, and very often this is a, for women, in this, always, all, all, always very much a beauty thing, and a, and a, and a, and a, a wealth, uh, uh, thing. And, for men, it is always packed with bravery and endurance and, uh, uh, uh, heroism. But a difference, I mean, it happens. There are societies where they strictly tattoo the women. And there's not much to say about the, the why or what. Uh, the only thing I could come up with now is what Leni Riefenstahl came up with, with once, was the aspect of, like, with the Nubian women who have like, uh, uh, uh, who are intensively, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, scarred, that they do this at a very young age, and in most primitive societies they start doing stuff like that after the first, uh, uh, menstruation, and, and, that it's, uh, the slow process in which this is going, through the years it happens, will build up a better healing system, and, uh, uh, uh, and that better healing systing[SIC] comes in really handy, because, like, the, uh, uh, the low rate of, uh, uh, the high rate of, of, of children dying, so, women mostly end up having about eight or nine kids in their life, which, that, seh, quick healing system that, that, that teased healing system, the teasing of the healing system in the, in the, in the, eh, early age which gives them, uh, uh, a more stronger healing, uh, system will help them heal easier inside, uh, uh, uh, of, with little, uh, uh, uh, oh, how do you call, them? Um. ____________________ DAVID ELLIS: Damges... 02: CHUCK ELDRIDGE: With little damages inside the womb from the, uh, the birth and, uh, uh, everything. So, it is almost a vaccination type of, uh, uh, uh, thing. Of course, uh...it, it, I think, it makes sort of sense, you know, like, the, eh, you're out there, it's very different than it is here. You know, as well as, as, as that, uh, uh, the, the whole thing, that when kids are young and they have all these diseases. They have these diseases in order to build up, uh, uh, a certain power which will help them, uh, uh, later in life, be healthy. So I can, I can see, uh, the, the, Leni Riefenstahl came up, of, of all people, came up with that. [LAUGHS] DAVID ELLIS: It's obvious you love art. You've worked in the arts. What's the relationship between the world of tattooing and art? 05:06:20 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Tattooing is the mother of art. I mean, we were there first. Uh, uh, you know, they often say, uh, uh, the oldest profession, but, like, hell, weh, we tattooed the first, uh, uh, uh, uh, woman in the oldest profession. So, like, tattooing was there first. No, in, you see, like, we got to see this thing in sort of like a, a evolutionary line in, in, in, in, uh, what we are now and in, and in, weh, like, in terms of clothing. You know, like, people will paint them up, mottle them like, and, like, scar themselves. So, tattooing, is a very early type of art in that whole, uh, line. In the Pacific, tattooing was the most, im, im, important art, the art that, uh, uh, uh, our problem is that, uh, you know, you build something out of bricks and it, it, it will stay there pretty long. So our problem is the fact that, uh, uh, the only proof we have is mummies. I mean, like, if, if, if all these corpses would still be there, we would see that there's been tattooed all over the world, and, uh, like, uh, all race. And, um, yah, here in Holland, officially, I am not art. Then again, you know, the most prestigious and the oldest art club of the world, the Arte here, in, uh, uh, Amsterdam, I'm a member of that thing, uh, but the tax man wants me to pay like if I'm not making art. Here in Holland, it's the damn tax man who decides what's art and what is not art. And, uh, yeah, you, you get into the discussion, "art," I mean, like, that is, and that is, art is an, uh, uh, you cannot really grab the phenonenem[SIC] art. To me there's a lot of stuff which is art. I'm, I'm a, I'm a big fan of, uh, uh, jailhouse, uh, uh, stuff. You know, uh, uh, people who, who make stuff out of empty package of cigarettes or, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, making an exact copy of a 45 out of bread dough, paint it black, and break out! You know that's, uh, and that's the kind of stuff I really, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, like. So, like, art is a very broad thing, I mean, uh, very many possi-bilities. What I like about tattooing is the, the communication. There is a piece of honesty in the, in the tat, eh, in the tattooed person. He is willing to show more of what goes on in here (POINTS TO HEAD, I THINK) than somebody who is not tattooed -- and is open with it. So, that's the aspect I, I, I, I very much like. You know, like, and that it becomes the mirror of one, one's, eh, one's mind. So, like, I think there is an honesty in, in the person who is tattooed of which I always really, really like. I can immediately see how mixed up the person is of the, or if he is a big asshole, you know, uh, uh, uh, there is a, con, eh, right now there is all these people like, a lot of these people who get into the primitive tattoos are what they call mod-prims and are very snotty in that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, way, and, very often, they totally misinterpreted what they have and what they do. You see kids nowadays wearing a, a Moko, but it's a female Moko. You know, like, first of all, it's a man with a female Moko, which is already like laughing stock at the Maoris, but, then again, they get, just grab that thing from some painting, so they're walking around with some other's granny's Moko on their face. And I'll tell you, like, you go to New Zealand, there's not many people who will, uh, uh, eh, like that. And those Maoris are damned big guys and they're going to kick this guy's ass in no, no time. They are not really, you got to remember that they are those medals. If you tattoo your body or your hand, means you killed somebody. So if you go and, uh, uh, just grab that thing out of the history of tattooing and put it on your hand, I say, you know, like, get into the mah, eh, eh, material and, like, make something based upon, make something contemporary out of it, but try to understand that, uh, uh, uh, deal, and the, try to understand the art, try to find out what it is. And the, that's what I, I've been doing for years, and that's what I've enjoyed. I mean, like, with these Maori, it is, they can go on for hours and tell you where this line goes through or came from and it's one amazing story after another amazing story. And I realize that I will never really know the whole deal, never. But I'm glad. You know, I mean, what would I do if I was finished tomorrow? You know, what the hell you're going to with answer. You don't want to know the answer. DAVID ELLIS: It seems like most artists that I know use art as a window onto a different world. Um.... 05:11:26 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: I, I, I think as art as an egg. You know, like you sit there and you shit the damn thing out, and then it's done and then you go on to the next egg. And, eh, you, you have to, it, it is that urge of doing something, even if it's worthless, even if you, you might find yourself one day gluing a bunch of like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, match sticks together in, uh, uh, like the piece I just bought in, uh, uh, uh, in, in, in L.A., is made out of false plastic nails. You know, like, so, like, anything is possible. DAVID ELLIS: At the center of your search through the Pacific, there's something, obviously, that has tickled you about traditional tattooing there. Your journey may go elsewhere, too, but, is there a single thing that so intrigues you about Pacific Island peoples? 05:12:24 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Yah, and, uh, oh, like, duh, uh, I mean, over there, I mean, you know, like, you're talking your genealogy is packed into most of the tattoos. And you're talking about an, an, an, as an oral society, there's no written history. So everything's oral. So, like, there's people who will be able to talk back, 50, 60, even 90 generations and you know, like, uh, like, how the Bible has been written down, like, uh, and then "so and so married with so and so and they had six children; and then his oldest son so and so married with so and so, and came on a, of, they came with six people on a boat, and traveled for 30 days, and, uh, this, this star was headed there. And that shit's all packed in their tattoos. (TALKING ABOUT MAORI TATTOOING) You know, like their tattoos are like a big handkerchief of a bunch of knots in there. Like, if they got to tell their history as a people, they'll be able to find that and read that in their tattoos. With the Maoris, it is, uh, for a big part, also, packed in houses, the amount of ribs are the amount of ships they came on, the amount of bindings around these ribs to hold the roof down were the amount of people on the boat, and on and on and on. So if you sit down in this house and you are, are able to read this thing, because you recognize this, the signals, then you could sit there and just talk about who you are just from watching where you are, and, and, and the tattooing very much has all that stuff, ee, uh, eh packed in there. Maoris can see on somebody's face, who he is and where he is from because of the tattoos. It's readable, it is like, uh, like the alphabet. All you got to do is you got to be in, you got to know how, you got to grow up with this stuff. They got to teach you, and then you'll be able to read it. And it's nothing, else. I mean, like, look at all these, like, Marquesses tattoo which is very much you know, like, uh, uh, triangles, rectangles, right? Why would it be like that? They can draw, you know, they can draw a nice flower. Somebody can sit down and draw a nice flower like we draw a flower. No, this is a process of generations, in which it became these, like, sort of mathematic, uh, uh, uh, But, also, it is readable in that manner, it is readable from a distance. It, and, and, and, and it, there is a message in there, it's telling stuff. The parts of the body where the tattoo is tells something about the wearer and tells you who he is and, uh, where he's from, if he is into astrology, if he is, a, a headhunter, if he killed people, there is tattoos for kidnapping people, there is, uh, uh, tattoos for marriages, there is tattoos for everything. DAVID ELLIS: I know this is an oversimplified question, but what is the common thread that unites societies as different as Japanese and Celtic peoples and Egyptians, that they use and are interested in tattooing? 05:15:42 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: That they use tattooing. Yeah, well, that's one of the big things. I mean, like, you're talking about the reasons for tattooing in that manner, you know. And then you start to, like, figure it out, you, you'll come down Christopher Scott, in, uh, the book Art, Sex and Symbols come up with about 14 reasons. And, uh, there's nationalistic reasons, you know, like, pride in your country, the American eagle, or, uh, uh, there is romantic reasons, your kid's name, your wife's name. There is medical reasons in terms of, like, tattooing being the medicine, or medical information, like your blood group. There is cosmetic reasons in which, uh, you enlarge lips or, uh, uh, uh, there is religious reasons in which you, uh, uh, uh, tattoo yourself in order to, like, get stuff right with your, uh, with your gods, or, uh, uh, uh, or to celebrate your god. There is totem, reasons of totem, like, belonging to a certain society, secret or not. Uh. Huh, [CHUCKLES] everybody has a different, uh, uh, one. There is even people who get tattooed in order to, uh, uh, do the right thing, after they are, uh, uh, uh, gone, you know, like, in the, in the burial, you need, the Kenyan tattoos need to be very, very black because the black of your body was going to be the light in the darkness of death. So, if you were not tattooed, you got to like wander around in the darkness, there, but, if you were tattooed, it became, that became your light on, uh, uh, uh, out there. DAVID ELLIS: After many years of being an artist and getting tattooed and giving tattoos and of living, are there any special lessons about human nature that you've picked up? 05:17:58 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Which makes me like of, a, a special person with a different view on the earth, or, uh, -- no. No, I could, I guess you could, seh, pull me out of this chair and I put my grandfather in there, being all his life a butcher and ask him the same, uh, uh, uh, thing. You know, like... DAVID ELLIS: But your grandfather probably met hundreds and hundreds of people. 05:18:23 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Yeah, I'm not the kind of guy who will take so much of a lesson out of this thing. I'm more a global person. I'm not looking for emotions in people. You know, people, there's people who look for emotions in people. I, I mean, I, sometimes I envy people who, who, who, like, are able to, like, you know, oh, and, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm, very much, a, a, I'm not a very, uh, a, a body person. You know, like, a don't fuck around with me, leh, you know, I don't like to be touched by people. I, I can't even have somebody massage me, because like it is too much for me to have some, some idiot sitting on my back squeezing my muscles, or, uh, uh, so, like, I do not, feh, I do not do too much with that kind of stuff. I do not, I'm not a person who lives in philosophies, I'm not a person who is look for the greater course in life. And I also do not wonder why we are here, you know, like we're here, so damn it, we deal with it. [LAUGHING] DAVID ELLIS: Okay. Let me ask you, finally, is there anything, in fairness, that you would like to say, for people who are fascinated by tattoos and have probably thought all the wrong things about the world of tattooing, is there something obvious that I've missed, that you think people should think about? In terms of the history or perhaps the furture -- where are we going with tattoos? 05:19:51 HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Well, that is, I mean, if, eh, I would go, oh, I can, I can give my, I can speak my mind on where we're going. I mean, but that's not nice. I think the shit-house is going to explode right in, in, in front of our face one of these days. Because it's getting so extremely out of hand. You know, like, uh... so, either we're going to get, like, heavily licensed and, uh, and they're going to, like, figure out what's, what is going on because there is a shit-load out there who have no idea what the fuck they're doing. You know, like, who went out, bought a tattoo machine and, uh, call it a gun and, uh, uh, uh, they'll start tattooing each other. But, uh, no, tattooing is here. And, uh, uh, it will always stay there. I mean, it's been, it's always been there. Sometimes out of a sexual aspect, sometimes out of beauty. Whatever the reason is. If it ain't tattooed, it ain't worth a fuck! DAVID ELLIS: Thanks very much for chatting with us. HENK SCHIFFMACHER: Yeah, I hope you make out of this, I am always a very quick jumper, you know, because, like...

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - NOV. 10: In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, on Sunday Nov. 10, police used force against demonstrators protesting against media bias and the scapegoating of pro-Palestinian supporters following the Ajax - Maccabi Tel Aviv match.Despite a protest ban by Amsterdam city authorities, Palestinian supporters gathered at Dam Square at around 14:00 to denounce the media's portrayal of incidents allegedly initiated by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans as "anti-Semitism" and unfairly blaming Palestinians.After warning the crowd that the rally was banned, police used batons to disperse the demonstrators, some of whom were reportedly injured. Before the intervention, protesters chanted "Free Palestine", "Shame on you, Netherlands, your hands are bloody", "People united" and "We will not be defeated". (Footage by Selman Aksunger /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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TAPE_NUMBER: EF01/0004 IN_TIME: 20:57:04 LENGTH: 00:58 SOURCES: NOS RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Voice and effects VOICED BY RICHARD VAUGHAN XFA A fire has ripped through a packed New Year's Eve celebration in the Dutch village of Volendam, killing at least five revellers and injuring more than 130. The fire started shortly after midnight local time as around 700 people were welcoming the new year in the picturesque fishing village about 20 kilometers (13 miles) northeast of Amsterdam. VOICE-OVER: 0003 The New Year was only a few minutes old when the fire started. Revellers, mostly teenagers and those in their early twenties, jumped from windows as flames engulfed the Little Heaven dance hall, which was packed at the time. Many of the victims were overcome by dense smoke and had to be pulled to safety by their hair, according to Dutch television. A hospital director in Amsterdam said 53 people had been admitted, about half of them in a critical condition with burn and inhalation injuries. The club, located above a row of old wooden buildings on the harbor, had a dance hall with a bar and cafe on each floor and was often used for weddings and celebrations. Eyewitnesses reported hearing explosions shortly before the blaze, raising fears that fireworks had been ignited inside the building. The death toll, currently standing at five, is expected to rise. SHOTLIST: Volendam, Netherlands -- January 1, 2000 0000-0016 Fireman at the scene 0016-0023 Wide of the scene 0023-0029 Victim being put into ambulance 0029-0032 Victim being put into ambulance 0032-0043 Emergency service workers at the scene 0043-0048 Building with emergency worker 0048-0058 Ambulance driving off?

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TAPE_NUMBER: EF01/0005 IN_TIME: 04:00:44 - 10:10:32 LENGTH: 02:58 SOURCES: Shots 1-6 = NOS, the rest = BBC RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat XFA People in the Dutch town of Volendam are starting to come to terms with the loss of life following Sunday night's blaze in a popular disco which killed eight young people and left 200 injured. Investigators sought to explain the cause of the fire that began on the third floor of a party complex just after midnight, setting alight two adjoining night clubs where several hundred teenagers were ringing in 2001. Billowing smoke and lapping flames triggered panic among an estimated 700 visitors as fiery ceiling decorations fell down upon them. Eyewitnesses told of screams and breaking glass as many jumped from windows on the top floor of the bar known as Little Heaven. Scores suffered burn wounds, smoke inhalation and cuts, while others were trampled underfoot as the fleeing masses fell over each other while trying to escape. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and began administering first aid to some of the 200 injured. With 90 people still hospitalised, health officials warned that the death toll could still climb as high as 20. In the initial confusion, concerned parents searched the smoky dark streets for their children as nearby houses were turned into makeshift medical posts. Residents of this harbour town about 20 kilometers (13 miles) northeast of Amsterdam were in mourning after a few minutes of chaos left them with memories they said will haunt them for life. The eight victims were between 16 and 22 years old. Three of them died in nearby hospitals. Emergency workers raced to the scene from across the country, spending more than four hours shuttling some 90 seriously injured to hospitals. By Monday evening, some 12 burn victims had been airlifted by helicopter to neighbouring Belgium and Germany. Forensic experts sifted through the charred remains in search of clues which could be linked to claims that there was only one functioning emergency exit and that fireworks had gone off inside the bar. Public prosecutors were considering a criminal investigation and had launched preliminary inquiries. SOUNDBITE: (English) "A complete disaster here, for this village. It will be, in the next (coming) years, the talk of the day and the first of January will forever be a reminder of this big disaster" SUPER CAPTION: Jaak Tol, Volendam resident SOUNDBITE: (English) "People fell on the ground, people were walking over other people, people were lying on each other and the panic was very large." SUPER CAPTION: Cor Kwakman, Volendam town spokesman SHOTLIST: Volendam, Netherlands - 1 January 2000 NOS 1. Fireman at the scene 2. Various wides of ambulances at the scene 3. Various of people being put into ambulances 4. Emergency service workers at the scene 5. Ambulances driving off 6. Various exteriors of the venue BBC 7. Interior of church 8. Various of candles lit for victims of fire 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jaak Tol, Volendam resident 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cor Kwakman, Volendam town spokesman 11. Various exteriors of the venue?

(EDITORS NOTE: Footage contains profanity.) People take to the streets in cities around the world to celebrate International Women's Day, officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977 in demand for gender equality, the right to abortion, and an end to violence against women on March 8, 2025 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Footage by Jos Poelman/Spectee via Getty Images UGC)

NAME: KOS SER SWIM 20080321I TAPE: EF08/0309 IN_TIME: 10:51:15:14 DURATION: 00:02:00:11 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/AP PHOTOS DATELINE: Mitrovica/Eindhoven, 19/21 March 2008 RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST AP Television Mitrovica, Kosovo - 21 March 2008 1. Wide of square in North Mitrovica 2. Mid of United Nations (UN) policemen 3. Close-up of Serbian flag 4. Wide street scene with banner reading (English) "Kosovo is Serbia" AP Photos - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only, Strictly No Access Online or Mobile Eindhoven, Netherlands - 19 March 2008 5. STILL Ukraine's Sergiy Breus, silver medal winner (left), Serbia's Milorad Cavic, gold medal winner (centre), and Spain's Rafael Munoz Perez, bronze medal winner (right), during presentation ceremony; Cavic's T-shirt reads (Serbian) "Kosovo is Serbia" 6. STILL Cavic celebrates on podium after winning gold medal AP Television Mitrovica, Kosovo - 21 March 2008 7. Wide street scene 8. Mid of T-shirts for sale 9. Close-up of T-shirts, T-shirt on right reads (Serbian) "Kosovo is Serbia" 10. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Milan Radivic, Kosovo Serb, Vox pop: "Two days ago I watched the basketball match between the Red Star club from Belgrade and Fees Pilsner club from Turkey which took place in Turkey, and I saw a lot of banners reading 'Kosovo Republic' or 'Kosovo New Country' and it was ok, but in Amsterdam when a Serb had a T-shirt reading "Kosovo is Serbia" that was not ok. Is that the Europe where we want to go?" 11. Wide of street and billboard 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marko Jaksic, student, Vox pop: "That's a bad decision. Somebody is guilty if he have a T-shirt with 'Kosovo is Serbia', that is not too bad thing for suspension. I think that international community try to control us and we cannot say our thing about Kosovo. I support Mr. Cavic in his fight for Kosovo." 13. Wide of Mitrovica bridge STORYLINE A Serb swimmer was suspended on Friday for the remainder of the European swimming championships for wearing a T-shirt proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia" at a medal presentation ceremony. His team said it plans to appeal. A disciplinary panel meeting of the European swimming league, LEN, ruled the T-shirt worn by Milorad Cavic as he collected gold for the 50-metre butterfly on Wednesday "constitutes a clear political action" that violated rules. "As a consequence, the panel has decided to suspend Mr. Milorad Cavic from further participation in individual events at the ... European swimming championships," LEN said in a statement. The Serbian swimming federation, which also was fined 10,800 US dollars, said it will likely appeal, but conceded it is unlikely the process could be completed in time for Cavic to swim again in Eindhoven. The Serbian team manager at the championships called the ban "very strict" and said Cavic was "devastated" by the decision. Cavic, who was born in Anaheim, California, to Serb parents and trains in Florida, said on Thursday he was just trying to send "positive energy" to the country he represents. In the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Friday, some Kosovo Serbs told AP Television they supported Cavic's protest. Student Marko Jaksic called the suspension a "bad decision". "That is not too bad thing for suspension. I think that international community try to control us and we cannot say our thing about Kosovo. I support Mr. Cavic in his fight for Kosovo," he said. Serb television and newspapers carried photos and images of Cavic in his red T-shirt on Thursday, but the emphasis was more on his victory and record than his T-shirt. The country's president and prime minister congratulated Cavic on his win. Cavic had been expected to swim in the heats of the 100 metres freestyle on Friday and the 100 metres butterfly on Saturday. The United Nations has not formally recognised Kosovo, and Serb ally Russia, a veto-wielding member of the Security Council, has described the independence declaration as illegal. The IOC has said Kosovo cannot compete in the Olympics until it is formally recognised by the UN. Kosovo, a former Serbian province with an ethnic Albanian majority, declared independence on 17 February (2008) and has been recognised by countries including the United States, Japan and powerful European Union nations. However, Belgrade strongly objects to losing a province many Serbs consider the historical cradle of the nation. The Serbian government says the independence declaration was illegal and has recalled ambassadors from nations that have recognised Kosovo as a new nation. Kosovo had not been under Serbian control since a NATO force moved in on the heels of massive air strikes in 1999 that ended a brutal Serb crackdown on secessionist rebels in the province.

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Panoramic view over harbour district in Amsterdam. With oil and other industries.

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TAPE: EF03/0151 IN_TIME: 14:37:56 DURATION: 3:23 SOURCES: APTN/EMI RESTRICTIONS: music/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: File SHOTLIST 1. Clip Video - 'Imagine', John Lennon APTN file - Jerusalem, November 1999 2. Yoko Ono walking through gallery displaying retrospective of her work 3. photo op Yoko sitting down at chess board exhibit 4. VS Yoko ono's art 5. B-Roll Press conference 6. SOUNDBITE Yoko Ono: "I think I'm here because my work has a lot to do with the healing of the soul and I hope that it would help and serve to heal some of your pain and mine at the same time, that's how I feel." APTN File 7. Yoko Ono on bed EMI footage - (from EPK - 12/2000) 8. Personal movie footage of John & Yoko 9. Pan across John Lennon exhibition to photo of John and Yoko doing Bed-in 10. Yoko's anti-gun poster, (featuring the glasses Lennon was wearing when shot) 11. Yoko walks to Lennon's Memorial 12. SOUNDBITE Yoko Ono: "They put candles and all sorts of flowers and everything and the kept singing until very late and I put a candle for candles out on the window sill in my bedroom just to say I'm with you you know, I think he would rather have been here and I'm sure that he himself feels as though he hasn't done enough yet." 13. Various Lennon singing 14. Music clip - 'Imagine', John Lennon. YOKO TIPPED TO HAVE DANCE HIT WITH LENNON SONG As John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, turns seventy, the artist is tipped with having a huge dancefloor hit. Yoko has recorded an 'electroclash' version of her husband's final song, 'Walking On Thin Ice,' with the Pet Shop Boys. The remake is already said to be causing a stir among hip DJs. She was due to give the first public performance of the song in a New York club last night (17FEB03) - the eve of her 70th birthday. She and Lennon were working on the track the night he was shot dead by Mark Chapman in December 1980. Two months later she released the song and made it to number 35 in the UK charts. Now she has collaborated with long-time admirers and Parlophone labelmates Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe for the underground dance-style track. She has been swamped with offers to play at electro clubs such as Nag Nag Nag and The Cock in London. Monday's performance of the song will see her performing with renowned DJ Danny Tenaglia, who has remixed the track at New York's Arc club. Other remixers who have worked on the track to be released in April include Felix Da Housecat. She told PA News: "I'm very excited that people love the record. I've been asked to come over to Britain and play in some electro clubs and I think I will do that. "I'm playing at six in the morning in New York, the day before my 70th birthday. Even my son (Sean Lennon) thinks that's pretty good going for his mum. "This feels like a new beginning for me, with the dance community adopting me and my music. It's a very exciting time for me and I'm grateful for everyone's support." On Tuesday Sean is throwing a birthday party for his mum and her closest friends. The ivitation states: "Clothing optional. Chanel No 5 optional. Bring your heart and high heels." Yoko Ono's relationship with the other Beatles and their fans wasn't always happy a happy one, but was rarely short on action: A member of New York's avant-garde art scene, she staged concerts in a loft. She met Lennon in 1966 at one of her shows in London, Unfinished Paintings And Objects. Both were married to other partners at the time. After marrying at a quiet civil ceremony on Gibraltar in 1969, Lennon and Ono famously turned their seven-day honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton into a "bed-in". From their hotel room, the ex-Beatle and his new wife held press conferences where they appealed for world peace. Two years later, in October 1971, Lennon's most famous solo recording, 'Imagine', was released. Ono once said of the song: "For us, it was like a summation of what we believed." Ono was born into a wealthy and socially prominent Japanese family, spending a lot of time before the Second World War travelling between Japan and the US. Yoko moved to New York permanently in the early 60s. Lennon and Ono left Britain for good on September 3, 1971, flying to the US to make a new home. Lennon later recalled: "It was Yoko who sold me on New York." On March 20, 1975 - their sixth wedding anniversary - Lennon and Ono renewed their vows in a Druid celebration in the White Room of Lennon's sprawling apartment overlooking New York's Central Park. The couple's son, Sean Ono Taro Lennon, was born the same year on Lennon's birthday, weighing in at a eight pounds and 10 ounces. Lennon had another son, Julian, from his previous marriage to first wife, Cynthia. On December 8, 1980, Lennon was gunned down outside his home in the Dakota apartment block in Manhattan by assassin Mark Chapman. Chapman, sentenced to 20 years-to life, remains in prison. He was refused parole in November last year. In March last year, Ono hired a billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus to show a poster, surrounded by neon flashing lights, which quoted Lennon's song Imagine: "Imagine all the people living life in peace." CLEARANCE DETAILS TITLE: Imagine ARTIST: John Lennon WRITER: Lennon PUBLISHER: Lennon LABEL: EMI

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