Director: Emile Lauste | Production Country: The Netherlands | Year: 1899 | Production Company: Nederlandsche Biograaf- en Mutoscope Maatschappij | FLM41310 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam) - filmdatabase.e...
In September of 1899, the French cameraman Emile Lauste visited the Netherlands for the second time that year to film for the Biograaf- en Mutoscope Maatschappij, a company that had many international subsidiaries. The footage was probably intended for the foreign market.
One of the subjects that Lauste briefly filmed was children on the island of Marken. We see the children passing by in a rowboat, and dancing in a circle. The traditional costumes and the watery environment looked very exotic to foreign audiences. The footage jibed very well with the perceptions that people had of the Netherlands in those days.
Eye holds a large number of films produced by the American Mutoscope Company (1895-1909) on 68mm film stock. In 1899 the company changed its name to American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. In december 1898 the Nederlandsche Biograaf en Mutoscope-maatschappij (NB&MM) was established as a subsidiary of the American company. Next to exhibiting the American films in the variété-theaters such as Circus O. Carré in Amsterdam, the NB&MM also produced a small number of films related to Dutch actualities. The NB&MM was declared bankrupt on June 27, 1902. From 1995 on, in collaboration with the BFI, EYE (then Nederlands Filmmuseum) undertook the restoration work to restore and reproduce these films, duplicating the original 68mm film stock onto 35mm safety film.
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Негізгі бет Een kinderfeest op 't eiland Marken
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