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This 16mm film is digitised in HD(1372x1026pixels) by Trigger BV in the Netherlands. The film is owned by a customer who authorised Trigger two use the film for this purpose. The complete film takes about 8½ minutes and shows mainly 2 events: the passage in 1954 through Rotterdam and the start of time trial on July 30, 1954 to Epinal. In this shot you see a passage of the peloton in 1953 somewhere in North-East France. The Dutch cycler you see leading is Jan "Tarzan" van Breenen. The full movie was shown to the Dutch cyclers that were still alive in January 2009. Amongst them Jan Nolten and Gerrit Voorting.

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Links: Tour de France 1953