- Title: THE NETHERLANDS: WHERE HAVE ALL THE AMSTERDAM HIPPIES GONE?
- Date: 5th July 1971
- Summary: 1. GV ZOOM OUT Schiphol Airport building 0.08 2. GV ZOOM TO Spartax charter aircraft on tarmac & GV Pan Am jumbo (2 shots) 0.19 3. SV Young American tourists leaving terminal (2 shots) 0.35 4. GV Tourists walk to bus and board (3 shots) 0.46 5. CU Sign on coach "Amsterdam Central Station" 0.50 6. CU Coach departs. 1.00 7. GV People walk in street in centre of Amsterdam 1.04 8. SV Girl smoking walks along street 1.09 9. CU Two girls with rucksacks along street (2 shots) 1.09 10. SV PAN "American Express" sign 1.26 11. CU PAN FROM Sign "Ride wanted to Copenhagen" to tourists holding signs 1.36 12. CU Girl with sign "Ride to Paris" 1.41 13. SV Shopkeeper moves two men from front of shop 1.47 14. LV PAN DOWN War memorial in Dam Square to young people sitting among flower beds 1.55 15. CU Group playing musical instruments 2.06 16. LV ZOOM TO Girl sleeping 2.13 17. GV PAN People sitting 2.19 18. SV PAN Group with dog and kitten. 2.26 19. LV ZOOM TO Police remote camera lookout in roof top of building 2.35 20. SV Policeman patrols square 2.46 21. GV PAN ACROSS Street to tourists sleeping 2.24 22. SV Tourists entering gateway 3.07 23. LV Tourists across yard and into doorway (2 shots) 3.18 Initials BB/1714 RJ/AW/BB/1741 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th July 1971 13:00
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- Location: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
- Country: Netherlands
- Reuters ID: LVACSAVC2B1GLUY1OOZQ4XQVE65K
- Story Text: Amsterdam, the hippy haven of 1970 has become the young tourists' transfer point for this year. Taking advantage of new cheap charter and even cheaper student concession air fares, thousands of young Americans are expected to flock to the Dutch city this summer. Last year they were drawn by stories of drug freedom, but following clashes with police in August last year, the devoted drug taking hippie moved on, and apparently the major exodus has been to Copenhagen. This year the young American tourist, intent on seeing Europe as cheaply as possible, is making Amsterdam his first port of call. The Dutch government has set up cheap hostels, some of them costing no more than two gilders (about 50 cents) a night. Dam Square, the centre of last year's riots, no longer resembles a hippy commune. The war memorial is still a favourite haunt of long haired youths, but they are no longer allowed to sleep on the square. As a result most of the young people there today are "in transit" spending a few days in Amsterdam before moving on.
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