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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 &...

Willy Mullens was commissioned to make a film about a glass factory in Leerdam in 1917. The director of the glass factory, P.M. Cochius, commissioned the film. Glas-Industrie in...

When the Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat (VNF) started up its own film division to make company films in 1925, there were no signs to...

In September 1919, the Vaderlandsch Historisch Volksfeest, a folkloristic festival, was organised in Arnhem. Haghe Film,...

Although the name Polygoon was synonymous with Dutch newsreels, that doesn’t mean that Filmfabriek Polygoon was the only producer who made them. Both the...

Although the Filmfabriek Hollandia in Haarlem was by far the largest and most prolific production company in the 1910s, it was not the only one. Soon...