Netherlands

Propaganda Film About the Dutch Military.

Holland neutraal (Neutral Holland) is this film’s subtitle, which was meant to show that the Dutch armed forces are very much prepared to guarantee the Netherlands’ neutrality in World War One. The more than 2.5-hour film was made by Willy Mullens in 1917, when other Western European armies had become numbed after three long years in the trenches. The footage in the Army and Navy Film depicts a relatively high-spirited mood, considering how the Dutch military had mobilized but not actually participated in the war.

Documentary about Leeuwarden.

Documentary about the Gouwe river.

Documentary about the Meuse and its surroundings.

Reportage about an exercise involving two divisions of the military cyclists brigade.

About the land reclamation around the fisher's island of Urk.

Romantic comedy about a secretary and the disinherited son of a baron.

Working footage of a royal visit to Groningen.

In 1922, Queen Wilhelmina, Prince Henry and Princess Juliana visited Groningen. Filmmaker Willy Mullens shot diverse footage of the event, showing the royal family riding through the city, attending church services, and visiting a gathering on an athletic field. Mullens also filmed a blind girl offering flowers to the Queen.

The filmmaker himself – with camera in hand – also briefly appears in the frame.

Corporate film for the Stearine Candle Factory in Gouda, with shots of the building complex and the production process.

When the dog-trainer Nicolaas Makko dies of alcoholism, his young son Theodoor - Dorus for short, but called Krates because of his hunchback - is left at the mercy of house-owner and pawnbroker Phi