Makkum became an important center of trade and industry, including brick works, wind-powered saw-, oil-, paper-, and pealing mills, ship yards and seashell lime kilns.
The film concludes ambiguously with the sound of pealing church bells.
The pealing of the church bells and the sounds from conch shells being blown followed seconds later.
Redondo would ask the fiscal (sacristan) to go around town pealing the bells.
This salted fish is dried in the sun and wind and is eaten raw after pealing off the skin.
There's no denying that it's romantic what with church bells pealing, complicated violin arrangements and a chorus which all reach a crescendo in the finale.
Here was a moment of drama; a time for the pealing of bells, for bonfires.
The great coup of the final section is when the brass break out in all directions across the landscape in an unchecked, 'natural' moment, bells pealing behind.
