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In the first years of film, there were a couple of film studios in the Netherlands. F.A. Nöggerath, jun. opened a small studio complex in Sloten, near...

The introduction of the sound film in the Netherlands occurred quite rapidly. In 1930, more than half of all Dutch cinemas had sound projectors, making this country one of the forerunners in Europe; within a few years, that percentage had...

During film’s early years in the days of travelling cinema music was used only sporadically. One exception was the films shown during the variety programmes put on by variety theatres.
These theatres (such as...

Early film was  silent – it was impossible to make a film with sound put directly onto the filmstrip itself. In order to make sure that people had enough clues to be able to follow the film’s story – especially as films started becoming longer in...

‘Cinematography is young; publicity is even younger’, quipped publicity manager Henrik Scholte in his contribution to the jubilee issue  of the ‘Officieel Orgaan...

Besides reporting on and reviewing films, newspapers and magazines in the 1930s also gave their readers the opportunity to ask questions about foreign or Dutch stars. The magazine Filmwereld had a special section entitled, ‘Questions we received...

The first film magazines came on the scene around 1907. Great Britain published ‘The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly’ (successor of the ‘Optical Lantern and Cinematograph Journal’), and the similarly named ‘Kinematograph’ was started up around...

In 1923, the distribution companies HAP &...