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Promotional film about the municipality of Haarlem.

This film shows Haarlem at its best: the St. Bavo Cathedral, street scenes, historic buildings, and beautiful parks and villas. Many of these shots were filmed from sailing boats, moving...

Corporate film for the Stearine Candle Factory in Gouda, with shots of the building complex and the production process.

The film ends with a shot of workers leaving the factory, which at the time was a familiar fixture of corporate films....

Promotional film for the Passage Bioscoop in Amsterdam.

Locally shot films, in which the audience was able to spot themselves, their friends, or their relatives, were very popular in the early years of film, and they played to full houses....

Reportage about the inauguration of the Mayor of Schiedam.

Several men wearing hats, including the new Mayor, are driven in an open carriage to Schiedam’s town hall. The audience curiously looks on and follows the procession. At the city...

Documentary about Amsterdam.

The working material for the film Amsterdam’s Squares and Streets consists of a compilation of shots of squares and streets in Amsterdam.

Most shots are slow pans, with the camera moving from left to right...

Corporate film about the production of butter at the Friesche Coöperatieve Zuivel-Export Vereeniging, a dairy cooperative.

In the twenties, more and more companies began making films in order to present themselves to their customers. ...

Documentary about the Boddaert Home for children.

The documentary shows the daily activities at the home. The children, dressed in aprons and with short haircuts, concentrate hard on carpentry and cooking, cleaning the windows, gardening,...

Documentary about the Frisian town of Stavoren.

The opening scenes of this documentary were shot from a boat in the Zuiderzee approaching the port of Staveren. This once-famous Hanseatic city is now known as the pleasure boater’s gateway to...