Haghe Film

Through a car accident, a young pilot gets to know a girl who works as a fashion model in the city. She leaves her fiancé in front of him and applies for a job as a stewardess. The inspection shows that she, like her brother, suffers from tuberculosis. The pilot abandons her, but her ex-fiancee comes to visit her at the sanatorium and marries her. However, their happiness is overshadowed by the death of their child from tuberculosis...

Amerongen: a previously unknown Dutch village, but since 1919... a famous royal resort

Report about the transfer of the administration of the Dutch East Indies from Governor-General D. Fock to A.C.D. de Graeff on 7 September, 1926.

The film opens with a panoramic shot filmed from a church tower. From the tower, we can see the old town of Enkhuizen, Netherlands, and, in the background, the former Zuiderzee. The silent witnesses from these former times are the harbour, and the ‘Dromedaris’ fortress tower.

Footage of the public declaration of support to Queen Wilhelmina that took place a week after SDAP leader Troelstra had declared the revolution in the Netherlands in the wake of the First World War.

Documentary about Haarlem.

Some history and views of the Dutch city.

Film commissioned by the Dutch tobacco agency about the tobacco harvest in Deli on Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies. In addition to the production of tobacco, we also see workers from various ethnic populations who have been moved to Sumatra by the tobacco industry, as well as the daily life of the Western managers and staff.

A boat in the Zuiderzee approaches the port of Staveren. This once-famous Hanseatic city is now known as the pleasure boater’s gateway to the Frisian lakes.

Shots of life in Volendam and the bay of Zuiderzee.

The film shows the fast and efficient production process at the Rijks Munt in Utrecht, with footage of melting, casting, punching, rolling, and minting coins.

Recordings of Duth towns Monnikendam, Enkhuizen and Edam. The film shows noteworthy buildings, squares, streets, factories and canals. The intertitles provide historical background information. Also beautiful pictures of a setting sun. Some shots were taken from the church tower and from a moving boat. The departure of the Enkhuizen-Stavoren boat is also depicted.

The most important buildings, streets, monuments, and waterways of Rijswijk, Netherlands. We see churches, restaurants, mills, the Haagweg, the Cromvliet country estate, and the Vliet river. Everyday life is filmed as well: trams, bicyclists, police on horseback, mothers with children, rowboats on the Vliet, and children playing by the Gedenknaald pillar that commemorates the Treaty of Rijswijk

Corporate film about the extraction, processing, and use of basalt by the Nederlandsche Basalt Maatschappij.

The Dutch factory shown in the film manufactures e.g. lightbulbs, street lamps, bowls, and cups. Various facets of the production process are captured: melting, glass-blowing, heating, cooling, decorating, modelling, grinding, and glazing.