De club van de Zwarte Pijl

Summary

Compilation of five short children's films directed by Dick Laan.

De club van de Zwarte Pijl (The Black Arrow Club) is a 1932 compilation of five 'boy scout films' made between 1917 and 1920 by writer and filmmaker Dick Laan. They all revolve around the same didactic message: a child who joins the boy scouts will not grow up to be a troublemaker. Laan's films are always beautifully photographed and skilfully cut. The stories are told in a surprisingly straightforward manner, often by means of flashbacks.

In De droom van een Bloemendaalsch padvindertje (The dream of a boy scout from Bloemendaal) he uses a similar device: a nightmare. Laan's inventive camerawork shows a chase sequence reminiscent of the early European slapstick tradition of the 1930s. The chase up the sand dune, like the pole climbing sequence, was cut back to front (as if depicting a fall from the top of the dune ). This kind of playfulness is a good antidote to the stuffy morality of Laan's films. The other four films are: De belooning van Hi, Hoe het kwam, Jan Feith en zijn nieuwste jongensboek, and Pim, de schrik van de familie.

Information

original title
De club van de Zwarte Pijl
production year
1932
censorship date
27-04-1932
country
Netherlands
category
Fictional
director
original distributor
producer
production company

Images

Crew

Technical notations

original length
2411
censorship length
2411
sound
Silent
colour
Black & White
format
35mm
acts
7

Resources

G. Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow. A Filmography of Dutch Silent Fiction, Amsterdam (1997), p. 277

Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; A668)

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