Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis

Samenvatting

In addition to the now well-known and well-restored early Dutch Biograph films, Ivo Blom presents another series of early ‘views’ of the Netherlands, which have hitherto hardly been studied by Dutch film historians. These films include streetview shots of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and recordings of media events involving Queen Wilhelmina and Paul Kruger. Blom examines the visual material as well as the historical context of its production and reception. As a result, he discovers that the films were made by Anton Nöggerath Sr. He then traces the afterlife of these films to the Nederlandsch Centraal Filmarchief (Central Dutch Film Archive), a private initiative that was established in the 1920s, and a forerunner to EYE (Filmmuseum) and the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid (Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision).