Cinema Context: Film in The Netherlands from 1896, an Encyclopedia of Film Culture

A national database that “avoids images”, but provides data on every film, every cinema, every cinema owner and manager, every company that played anywhere in The Netherlands from 1896 to 1960 can be found here. Karel Dibbets, editor in chief, heads an organization that has compiled a very impressive collection that reflects over 60 years of film screenings in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Groningen, Limburg and hundreds of other cities throughout the country. Not a collection of film clips, posters, biographies of directors or actors, this is raw data collected painstakingly from a wide variety of original sources. For...