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Flip Carli
Ph. G. "Flip" Carli (1879–1972) was a association football, footballer turned film director from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Biography Carli was born in Bandung, West Java, in 1879. His father was a major in the Dutch military of Italian descent, while his mother was Native Indonesians, native. Carli went to the Netherlands around age seven, where he completed his education. As a youth he expressed an interest in football, playing for his school team. He later acquired the nickname "Flip". In 1901, soon after graduation, Carli returned to the Dutch East Indies, Indies and took a job at a sugar factory. Although he remained active in football, around this time he took up an interest in photography. He eventually moved to the colony's capital at Batavia (now Jakarta) to open his own photography shop. By 1919 Carli had become interested in filmmaking, establishing his own company in Bandung named Kinowerk Carli to make documentary films, documentaries. His first success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandung
Bandung ( su, ᮘᮔ᮪ᮓᮥᮀ, Bandung, ; ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java. It has a population of 2,452,943 within its city limits according to the official estimates as at mid 2021, making it the fourth most populous city in Indonesia. Greater Bandung (Bandung Basin Metropolitan Area/BBMA) is the country's third-largest metropolitan area, with nearly nine million inhabitants. Located above sea level, the highest point in the North area with an altitude of 1,050 meters and the lowest in the South is 675 meters above sea level, approximately southeast of Jakarta, Bandung has cooler year-round temperatures than most other Indonesian cities. The city lies on a river basin surrounded by volcanic mountains that provides a natural defence system, which was the primary reason for the Dutch East Indies government's plan to move the capital from Batavia (modern-day Jakarta) to Bandung. The Dutch first established tea plantations around the mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
