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The French firm Pathé Frères dominated the film world at the beginning of the 20th century. It set both the artistic and technical standards for film, and...

On 11 November 1911, the Mullens brothers (Alberts Frères) started up a series of ‘cinéma parlant’ (‘talking film’) shows in the Paleis voor Volksvlijt (‘Palace of Industry’) in...

Franz Anton Nöggerath, sen. was one of the first theatre owners who shifted to showing films. In the fall of 1896, film shows from Madame Olinka were...

‘Cinema theatres are popping up all over the place’ was a commonly heard phrase in the early 1910s. New cinemas were regularly appearing on the scene: sometimes these were new, comfortable buildings featuring all the modern conveniences, and...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ‘chase film’ became a popular genre. The films generally had a simple, linear narrative structure wherein the shots followed each other in a natural way and the film needed no further explanation or...

Just as in the countries bordering the Netherlands, the Dutch monarchy played a major role in the popularisation of film as a new medium. In Great Britain, the film of Queen...

The vast majority of films made in the first decennia of film history are gone. Worldwide, it’s estimated that at least 80% of all the films that were made up until WWI have been lost. This is also the case in the Netherlands.

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On 27 September 1899, a revue entitled ‘De nieuwe prikkel’ premiered at the Amsterdam Grand Théâtre. In this farce, Roland Krimmetart played a well-to-do bachelor with ambitions of...