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When looking at travelling cinema programmes it is striking how, among the wide range of films, one genre frequently crops up: the ‘local film’. This genre came into fashion around 1899. 

Travelling cinema showmen such as...

During the first years of film there were two very different exhibition circuits in the Netherlands. In major cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam, exhibitions regularly took place in variety theatres, while in the rest of the country, travelling...

 In June 1896, Amsterdam-based photographer M.H. Laddé made three short films that were shown in...

In the fall of 1903, F.P.J. Goeman showed films a few times a week in the Tivoli-Wintertuin (Tivoli-Wintergarten) in Rotterdam. The films were screened using The Royal Bioscope. For...

We can safely assume that the films De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje… and ...

The first generation of film exhibitors was made up of two groups: variety theatre directors and travelling cinema showmen. The latter was made up primarily of fairground showmen who saw film as a popular attraction to help them draw in new...

On 30 June 1909, Alberts Frères placed an ad in the newspaper Haarlem’s Dagblad announcing that they had purchased the screening rights for films from...

The first crisis in international film production happened around 1907. Cinema attendance stagnated. Higher-educated viewers lost interest in the simple slapstick and comical one-act films that dominated the theatres at that time. In many...