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In August 1920, the Internationale Kinotentoonstelling (IKT) was held in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The exhibition was the brainchild...

In the 19th century, one innovation after another was being invented: photography, the telegraph, the telephone. These discoveries were generally well known, but were not encountered on a daily basis by most people. Photography was perhaps the...

Kodak started a revolution in the film world when it launched 16mm film in the consumer market. This inflammable acetate film opened up a world of possibilities for the amateur filmmaker. 

New format catches on

Kodak was not the...

The idea that progress was unstoppable wasn’t new. It had already been around for about a century in the days of folklorist Dirk Jan van der Ven. Although the...

The end of WWI ushered in major changes in the film world. The American film industry had developed enormously during the war. Thanks to its large internal market and the halt on the import of foreign products, it had grown into a strong,...

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...