Johann Vierboom

Biography

Johann Theodor Vierboom began his film career as an employee of the exhibitor Carl Pfläging in Rotterdam’s Circus-Variété. That is also the era from which his contract with the producer F.A. Nöggerath Sr. dates; Vierboom probably began working for Nöggerath in July 1897. He initially worked as a music-hall singer and comic for Nöggerath, but soon became a stage director as well. Together with Léon Boedels, Vierboom was part of Nöggerath’s regular core of cameramen.

He shot a few short feature films and a good deal of news footage, including the marriage of Queen Wilhelmina, the 1907 sinking of the ship Berlin, and the flood of 1916.

For some time, Vierboom was also the General Manager of Amsterdam’s first large cinema, the Bioscope-Theater, which Nöggerath built in 1907.