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‘Cinema theatres are popping up all over the place’ was a commonly heard phrase in the early 1910s. New cinemas were regularly appearing on the scene: sometimes these were new, comfortable buildings featuring all the modern conveniences, and...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ‘chase film’ became a popular genre. The films generally had a simple, linear narrative structure wherein the shots followed each other in a natural way and the film needed no further explanation or...

Just as in the countries bordering the Netherlands, the Dutch monarchy played a major role in the popularisation of film as a new medium. In Great Britain, the film of Queen...

On 27 September 1899, a revue entitled ‘De nieuwe prikkel’ premiered at the Amsterdam Grand Théâtre. In this farce, Roland Krimmetart played a well-to-do bachelor with ambitions of...

In September 1911, Filmfabriek F.A. Nöggerath opened its own film studio on the Sloterdijk in Amsterdam. F.A. Nöggerath, jun. rented a country estate called Vredelust from...

In 1916, Willy Mullens was commissioned by the Ministerie van Oorlog (‘Ministry of War’) to make a propaganda film showcasing the efficiency of the Dutch army –...

On 8 January 1912, the Dutch newspaper ‘Nieuws van de Dag’ published a letter to the editor addressing cinema’s appropriateness – or lack thereof – for children. The author, a certain P., provided a summary of a number of scenes from films shown...

Abraham Tuschinski, an enterprising Polish immigrant in Rotterdam who worked as a tailor and owned a very successful company, was smitten with film. In 1911...