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On 8 January 1912, the Dutch newspaper ‘Nieuws van de Dag’ published a letter to the editor addressing cinema’s appropriateness – or lack thereof – for children. The author, a certain P., provided a summary of a number of scenes from films shown...

Abraham Tuschinski, an enterprising Polish immigrant in Rotterdam who worked as a tailor and owned a very successful company, was smitten with film. In 1911...

For years, the Nederlands(ch)e Bioscoopbond (NBB) – officially established on 18 July 1921 – called the shots in the Dutch cinema world. With its closed structure, this organisation that represented exhibitors, distributors and producers was able...

On 8 November 1912, the first Dutch school film was presented in the Friso Bioscoop in Leeuwarden: O...

In the Netherlands and abroad, the rise of film – and certainly its enormous popularity among the masses – led to the question of whether film shows were suitable for all audiences and if films should be censored before viewing. There was...

On 1 March 1928, the Bioscoopwet (‘Cinema law’) of 1928 officially went into effect. On that day, the first films were censored by the Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (CCFK). The honour of being the first film went to the advertisement...

As early as the 1910s it was observed that film had an irresistible attraction for children, although the films that were shown in the cinemas were rarely suitable for the delicate sensibilities of a child. This led to local film censorship...

On 18 May 1912 the Maatschappij voor Wetenschappelijke Cinematografie was founded in Haarlem. D. de Clerq was the director...