- Title: NETHERLANDS: WORLD'S LARGEST SAND PARK OPENS IN ALMEERDERZAND
- Date: 16th July 2000
- Summary: ALMEERDERZAND, NETHERLANDS (JULY 16 2000)(REUTERS) 1. CU: SAND BEING SHOVELLED 0.05 2. VARIOUS SAND SCULPTURE ARTISTS WORKING ON SANDCASTLE (8 SHOTS) 0.33 3. PAN UP/SV: MARJON KATERBERG, CHIEF DESIGNER OF JAPANESE VILLAGE PROJECT AT ALMEERDERZAND (2 SHOTS) 0.45 4. SV: (SOUNDBITE)(English) KATERBERG SAYING "It is a material that forces you to think flexibly. When something collapses or when the sand is built up differently than what you had in your mind, then you have to change your plan and during your work and during your carving, you change your plan. Its nice to think that flexible. Compared to steel its more flexible and that's the joy of it." 1.21 5. WIDE OF SAND VILLAGE BEING BUILT 1.23 6. PULL OUT: SAND BEING PARTITIONED 1.27 7. SV/CU: SAND BEING MOISTENED (2 SHOTS) 1.33 8. CU/SV: ARTISTS STUDYING DESIGN OF SAND SCULPTURE (2 SHOTS) 1.37 9. VARIOUS OF SAND CASTLES 1.40 10. VARIOUS DESIGNS AND SAND SCULPTURES (11 SHOTS) 2.21 11. GENERAL VIEW SAND CITY 2.26 12. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) JAPANESE EMBASSY FIRST SECRETARY MAYUMI WATANABE SAYING: "I think that they have made a very good research. They have chosen different aspects of traditional Japan and modern Japan. I think this is a very good combination." 2.44 13. MV/SV: MOCK WARRIORS PRACTISING AIKIDO AT OPENING OF PARK (2 SHOTS) 2.50 14. WS: WATER POURING DOWN SAND SCULPTURES 2.57 15. VARIOUS OF PARK AT NIGHT (8 SHOTS) 3.11 16. SV: JAPANESE DRUMMERS AT OPENING CEREMONY 3.15 17. MV: DRAGON SCULPTURE WITH JET OF FLAME COMING OUT OF MOUTH 3.19 18. VARIOUS OF FIREWORK DISPLAY WITH SAND SCULPTURES IN FOREGROUND (7 SHOTS) 3.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: ALMEERDERZAND, THE NETHERLANDS
- Country: Netherlands
- Reuters ID: LVA7NXX3JG961W7HFTVU7TOEANA9
- Story Text: The biggest park in the world to be made entirely of
sand has just opened in Almeerderzand in the Netherlands. With
fourteen thousand tonnes of sand transported to the site and a
professional sculpting team working on it for two weeks, the
sand produced a remarkable vision of Japan.
Sand is one of the simplest materials known to man.
And in a far corner of Western Europe international sculptors
are making their very own Far Eastern masterpieces.
The 88-member crew brought a lot more with them than
buckets and spades.
With 1400 lorry-loads of sand transported overland to work
with, the sculptors have been working constantly for two weeks
come rain or shine.
Compacting the sand is a mammoth task which needs its own
fully trained technical crew.
The sand isn't ordinary beach sand. It has been brought
from a nearby river where the sand hasn't been eroded like it
has at the beach and can be compacted to stick together
despite bad weather.
"It is a material that forces you to think flexibly. When
something collapses or when the sand is built up differently
than what you had in your mind, then you have to change your
plan and during your work and during your carving, you change
your plan," said chief designer Marjon Katerberg.
Some two hundred thousand visitors are expected to walk
the park's sea-shell-lined paths to see what the sand carving
team have made of the theme of Japan.
Once they've finished here in the Netherlands the team is
off to Belgium to recreate the wilds of Africa.
The sand sculpture park is just one of many events to mark
400 years of trade between the Netherlands and Japan.
"I think that they have made a very good research. They
have chosen different aspects of traditional Japan and modern
Japan. I think this is a very good combination," said the
First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy Mayumi Watanabe at the
official opening.
The project cost four hundred and twenty-five thousand US
dollars.
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