Haghe Film

A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.

Children in costume. fishing boats. Island of Marken on the former Zuiderzee bay, Netherlands.

"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!" is a Dutch fiction film from 1931, directed by Willy Mullens and Herman Bouber, and produced by Haghe Film. It is an educational film about the fight against tuberculosis, centering on the Verhulst family as they make the move to a modern, airy home.

Documentary about Haarlem.

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...

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.

Filmed from a tram, we see the Utrechtseweg, with imposing villas on both sides of the street, including the country house ‘Ma retraite'. The film also contains footage of the ‘villa quarter’, the town hall, the Hotel Figi on Het Rond, and the Donkerelaan, as well as Slot Zeist, surrounded by woods and water.

This corporate film shows the work of Dutch asphalt companies such as the Nederlandsche Basalt Maatschappij, NV Bitumenweg, and H.P. Vale Arnhem. We see the raw materials arriving by barge, the processing of these materials into the final product, and the different stages involved in paving the roads.

Reportage about the first flight to the Dutch Indies. Shots of the departure of the Fokker VII H-NACC in the Netherlands in the presence of KLM-director Plesman and of the arrival in the Dutch Indies. We also see the trial flight above Rotterdam.

Various onlookers, including pets, experience the eclipse. We also see a view through a telescope of the eclipse itself.

Shot in the Philips factory that produced glass housings for lightbulbs, Eindhoven, Netherlands. In the factory, dozens of glass blowers can be seen making these glass housings. Two of them even manage to blow and stretch a piece of glass to a length of twenty meters.

Activities involving the shipment of sugar from the Dutch East Indies. This shipment took place in Pasuruan, with destinations including Europe, China, Japan, and the former British India. We see shots of samples being taken, and bags being weighed. Loading in canoes, and being transferred to the ship S.S. Tjikarang. Shots of the office of N.V. Afscheep- en Commiessiezaak, formerly known as J.F. Esser.

Some history and views of the Dutch city.

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.