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School cinema visits deemed ‘inappropriate’

The school cinemas that were established in various Dutch cities in the twenties and thirties met with criticism from very early on. Some critics objected for moral reasons: they were convinced...

De Uitkijk was the first avant-garde cinema in the Netherlands. It opened its doors in 1929, and was located at Prinsengracht 452 in Amsterdam. Up until then, that...

‘…we drive to an inn a bit further on, the automobile almost sinks to the bottom of a mudhole, we set everything up, do a trial run. Then it’s time and at 7:30 the second show starts. Fifty country dwellers  fill the small room. The screen hangs...

Once the sound film had been introduced at the beginning of the 1930s, well-known revue stars such as Fien de la Mar,...

Up until the beginning of the 1930s, it was relatively easy for foreigners to settle in the Netherlands. That changed, however, when the number of communist and Jewish refugees fleeing from the national socialist regime in Germany increased after...

On 1 October 1924, the Fokker F.VII took off for the Dutch East Indies with two pilots, Van der Hoop and Van Weerden Poelman, as well as a flight engineer, Van den Broeke, on board. After a month-long stopover in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, due to...

Two didactic principles

The films that the NOF distributed in the 1940s and 1950s are characterised by two different, and seemingly opposing, didactic principles. The first entails...