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At the beginning of 1937, Het Vaderland, a newspaper in The Hague, carried out a survey among 27 ‘insiders’ in the film world that asked whether a Dutch film industry had the right to exist. One of the participants was producer...

De Jantjes ushered in a short-lived boom in Dutch feature film production. The film was based on a popular comedic Dutch play. It cast well-known revue...

In the 1930s, many foreign stars regularly came to the Netherlands as part of publicity campaigns for themselves or their films. 

Already in the 1920s, the Americans Mary Pickford and...

In addition to many posters and photographs, EYE also has many brochures and programmes that were put out by distributors and cinema companies in the 1930s. These were to promote film and cinema companies and the stars who acted in their films...

In 1933, the magazine Filmwereld was hunting for a new actress, and so it organised a film star contest. The participants were informed that they weren’t being judged solely on the basis of their beauty, but that they also had to be able to sing...

School cinema visits deemed ‘inappropriate’

The school cinemas that were established in various Dutch cities in the twenties and thirties met with criticism from very early on. Some critics objected for moral reasons: they were convinced...

De Uitkijk was the first avant-garde cinema in the Netherlands. It opened its doors in 1929, and was located at Prinsengracht 452 in Amsterdam. Up until then, that...

‘…we drive to an inn a bit further on, the automobile almost sinks to the bottom of a mudhole, we set everything up, do a trial run. Then it’s time and at 7:30 the second show starts. Fifty country dwellers  fill the small room. The screen hangs...