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Bleeke Bet (1923)
Comedy about Bet, who tries to persuade her daughter to marry landlord Van Zanten's wimpy son as part of a business deal.
Bet - nicknamed Bleeke Bet (Pale Bet) despite her very red face - runs a greengrocery in the Jordaan, Amsterdam's...
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Amsterdam viert regeringsjubileum
Reportage about the 25th anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina’s rule in Amsterdam.
The city of Amsterdam celebrates the 25th anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina’s rule. In the presence of the royal family, a big festival takes place on the Dam...
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Abraham Tuschinski
Abraham Tuschinski was a Polish-Jewish ready-to-wear tailor who wound up staying in Rotterdam in1904 while on the way to the United States. In Rotterdam he started a hotel that served kosher cuisine to the many Eastern European Jews who were...
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Hermann Gerschtanowitz
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Will Tuschinski
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M.H. Laddé
The photographer Machiel Laddé was a relative of the Amsterdam photographer and photography dealer J.W. Merkelbach. From roughly 1896 to 1906, he made several short feature films and documentaries in his Amsterdam film...
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Johannes Wilhelm Merkelbach
Amsterdams photographer, father of Jacob Merkelbach. With M.H. Laddé, he founded the Eerste Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J...
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Film Shows by Alberts Frères
A luxurious movie tent with full evening programmes, musical accompaniment and Willy Mullens as an rousing explicateur, or lecturer – that was the formula that...
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Local Films
When looking at travelling cinema programmes it is striking how, among the wide range of films, one genre frequently crops up: the ‘local film’. This genre came into fashion around 1899.
Travelling cinema showmen such as...
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Variety Theatres
During the first years of film there were two very different exhibition circuits in the Netherlands. In major cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam, exhibitions regularly took place in variety theatres, while in the rest of the country, travelling...