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, NRCboeken, June 13, 1997)The First Dutch Film: Gestoorde hengelaar
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M.H. Laddé M.H. (Machiel Hendricus) Laddé (5 November 1866 – 18 February 1932) was a Dutch photographer and film director. He was the director of the first Dutch fictional film, the 1896 comedy ''Gestoorde hengelaar'' (English: ''Disturbed Angler'').< ...

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, EYE Film Institute Netherlands in 1896 and was produced by the studio ''Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf van M.H. Laddé en J.W. Merkelbach''.Eerste Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach
, EYE Film Institute Netherlands SliekerAd

The short silent film was first shown by the traveling cinema ''Grand Théatre Edison'' of Christiaan SliekerGeorge Christiaan Slieker (1861-1945)

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on Sunday 29 November 1896 in the ''Parktuin Tivoli'' in Utrecht.De eerste filmvertoning in Utrecht: Christiaan Slieker in Park Tivoli
Utrecht Project (archive) The film was not preserved and no known photos were taken of it. That means that it is a lost film. It is only known that ''Gestoorde hengelaar'' was a

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comedy scene (with Lion Solser and Piet Hesse, who were then popular Dutch comedians) from the flyer which Slieker distributed. The film was shown in Slieker's cinema using a

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, made by ''H.O. Foersterling & Co'' from Berlin, Germany. A fairground organ provided music during the film's showing.

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* A. Briels, Komst en plaats van de Levende Photographie op de kermis. Een filmhistorische verkenning, Assen (1973), p. 30 * K. Dibbets & F. van der Maden (red.), Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse film en bioscoop tot 1940, Weesp (1986), p. 19 *G. Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow. A Filmography of Dutch Silent Fiction, Amsterdam (1997), p. 51

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* {{M.H. Laddé 1896 films Dutch black-and-white films Dutch silent short films Dutch comedy films Films about fishing Films shot in the Netherlands Films set in the Netherlands Lost Dutch films 1896 comedy films 1890s lost films Lost comedy films 1896 short films Silent comedy films Silent adventure films

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