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In the fall of 1903, F.P.J. Goeman showed films a few times a week in the Tivoli-Wintertuin (Tivoli-Wintergarten) in Rotterdam. The films were screened using The Royal Bioscope. For...

We can safely assume that the films De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje… and ...

The first generation of film exhibitors was made up of two groups: variety theatre directors and travelling cinema showmen. The latter was made up primarily of fairground showmen who saw film as a popular attraction to help them draw in new...

On 30 June 1909, Alberts Frères placed an ad in the newspaper Haarlem’s Dagblad announcing that they had purchased the screening rights for films from...

The first crisis in international film production happened around 1907. Cinema attendance stagnated. Higher-educated viewers lost interest in the simple slapstick and comical one-act films that dominated the theatres at that time. In many...

Between 1907 and 1914, the Netherlands was visited by a number of foreign filmmakers. The Belgian cameraman Alfred Machin was one of the first to do so; in 1909...

The first Dutch company to produce newsreels on a regular basis was Kinematograaf Pathé Frères. Beginning in 1912 they showed the French Pathé...

The French firm Pathé Frères dominated the film world at the beginning of the 20th century. It set both the artistic and technical standards for film, and...