''Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam'' (English: Swimming Place for Youths in Amsterdam) was a short
Dutch silent film by
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'').< ...
from 1896 about the then recently opened
swimming pool
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at the
Heiligeweg in
Amsterdam, which was the first indoor pool in the
Netherlands. The film is
lost
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See also
*
List of Dutch films before 1910
Sources
* A. Briels, ''Komst en plaats van de Levende Photographie op de Kermis. Een filmhistorische verkenning, Assen'' (1973), pp. 29–30
* K. Dibbets & F. van der Maden (red.), ''Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse film en bioscoop tot 1940'', Weesp (1986), p. 19
* R. Smit (red.), ''Filmhistorie in Eindhoven : 1897-1985'', Eindhoven (1985), pp. 11–12
* H. de Wit, ''Film in Utrecht van 1895 tot 1915'', Utrecht (1986); Annex: p. 21
* H. Rijken, ''Filmgeschiedenis van Hoorn'', Hoorn (1995)
* C. Bordewijk & J. Moes, ''Van bioscoopkwaad tot cultuurgoed. Honderd jaar film in Leiden, Utrecht'' (1995), p. 16
* G. Donaldson, 'De eerste Nederlandse speelfilms en de gebroeders Mullens', in: Skrien Nr. 28, januari 1972, p. 8
External links
''Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam'' EYE Film Institute Netherlands
De eerste Nederlandse film: De gestoorde hengelaar EYE Film Institute Netherlands
1896 films
Dutch black-and-white films
Dutch silent short films
Lost Dutch films
1890s lost films
1896 short films
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