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1     Joris Ivens and music:

      - Johannes Carl Gall: A Rediscovered Way to describe Rain. On the trail of a sound version unseen and unheard for 57 years. (2005, Word -document)

      - Johannes Carl Gall / Owen Underhill: correspondentie over live-uitvoering van Regen. (2004, Word-document)

      - André Stufkens: Three times Rain (2005, Word-document)

      - Theodore van Houten: Muziek & Regen (2001, Word-document)

2      Power and the Land / Power for the Parkinsons:

      - Ephraim Smith: Power for the Parkinsons: The Family and Film that helped electrify the American farm (2003, Word-document)

      - André Stufkens: Chronology of the shooting of Power and the Land 1938-1941 (2005, Word-document)

      - Joris Ivens: Diary (in Dutch) of the shooting of Power and the Land, 5 augustus 1939-17 november 1939 (1939, pdf-bestand) 

      - André Stufkens: Production#5: Pare Lorentz and Joris Ivens (2005, Word-document)

3      The Spanish Earth

      John Steen: De Spaanse Burgeroorlog, een oorlog van kunstenaars (met logboek opnames 27 januari 1937-27 april 1939), (1999, Word-document)

      Joris Ivens, letter to Contempary Historians, 15 juli 1937 (1937, pdf-bestand)

      Joris Ivens, commentary text The Spanish Earth (in Engels en Duits, 1937), (1937, Word-document)