Videoteca

The Dutch Railways 1925
Documentary in six segments: buildings and personnel in Utrecht, station interiors including Amsterdam Central Station, materials and workshops, railroads, rails, railwaybridges and finally footage of some train journeys throughout the Netherlands.

Vrouwenoogen 1912

De bannelingen 1911
An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists.

Infidelity 1911 star_border 1
Renée isn't very happy in her marriage with colonel Brachart and starts a relationship with a young lieutenant.

The Grip 1909 star_border 4
Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Misfortune, tragic developments, and a fatal ending dominated many of the early Dutch fiction films.

Flower Fields of Haarlem 1909
In the vaults of the Film Museum is a short film which, when it arrived in the 1950s, was given the title Bloemenvelden in Haarlem (The Flower Fields of Haarlem). The film shows the visit of two women and a child to the bulb fields. One woman buys a bouquet of flowers from a farm labourer who is hard at work. At the end of the film, a man joins them. He also buys a bouquet of flowers. Both the husband and wife give their bouquets to the child.

Solser and Hesse 1906
A sequel to the last film from 1900, a single one-act “talkie” sound on-disk film produced by the Royal Bioscope

The Maasbrug in Rotterdam 1901
A well-preserved slice of life in Holland, showing people and horse-drawn trolleys in front of the ornamented Maasbrug bridge. Approximately 1901.

Dam Square in Amsterdam 1900
Dam Square in Amsterdam, bustling with pedestrians and horse trams.

Dutch Fishing Fleet 1900 star_border 6
Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.