Warbrides

This interesting post, which I have edited,  has just appeared on the WARBRIDES digest :

"Dozens of Dutch women emigrated to New Zealand in 1953, following their dreams and their fianc?s to the other side of the world. In Bride Flight, filmmaker Ben Sombogaart tells both the dreams and the realities.
In the 1950s, the other side of the world exerted an enormous pull on Europeans, including the Dutch, and many people emigrated to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In Bride Flight Sombogaart partially uses historic footage from a 1953 KLM flight to New Zealand, and in telling the story of three women and one man, he illustrates some of the reasons behind the flight to this 'other' world.
These people wanted to get away from the traumas of the Second World War, the devastating floods of February 1953, the chronic housing shortage and the narrow-minded parochialism of the Dutch. They dreamt of space, luxury and freedom. And the women dreamt of love, the three women on board this KLM flight are going to join their fiances.
The actual shooting of the film generated a lot of publicity in New Zealand and a number of elderly women made regular visits to the set.
History
It was difficult to find good locations for the 1950s scenes.  According to Ben Sombogaart:
"The people in my film were starting a new life in New Zealand. But the tragic aspect of the story is that the things they were escaping from eventually caught up with them. Lots of the older emigrants feel an enormous sense of nostalgia when they think back to their birthplace, to the Netherlands".
Michele, Vice President of the WWII War Brides Association
Host of the American War Bride Experience at
http://www.geocities.com/us_warbrides/
(Belgian War Baby?- USS Brazil)

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