26 mei 2026

Dam across the Amstel

 

 

Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, tv programs and newsreel footage. Often, a country has its own film archive to preserve its national audiovisual heritage. The International Federation of Film Archives comprises more than 150 institutions in over 77 countries and the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991. For a comprehensive look at the history of film preservation and the institutions and organizations that developed various practices 


 

25 mei 2026

Silly Walks

 

 

One of the most important things to keep in mind when creating a shot list is to be as detailed as possible. Each shot should be given a unique number and described in detail, including the camera angle, movement, and framing. This level of detail helps the director and cinematographer stay on the same page and ensures that everyone knows what is expected of them on set.



 

Atlas studios





 

A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films. Today, studios are mostly financing and distribution entities. In addition, they may have their own studio facility or facilities; however, most firms in the entertainment industry have never had their own studios, but have rented space from other companies instead. Day-to-day filming operations are generally handled by a production company subsidiary.

Another type of company is an independently owned studio facility, which does not produce motion pictures by itself; such facilities only sell studio space.


 

 


 

 


23 mei 2026

Pictures of War

 

 

Within this category of anti-war films that choose to de-emphasize the actual battlefield conflicts of war, some films specifically focus on communicating pacifist ideologies by emphasizing war's devastating effects on innocent civilians and the lands in which war is waged. This niche of anti-war films often utilizes visceral imagery that confronts viewers with the tragic realities of war's presence in beloved main characters' lives, such as by depicting main characters' homes being decimated by war bombs, main characters being forced to contend with the uncomfortable, off-putting presence of soldiers in their city, and characters dealing with the emotional toll of witnessing war's violence in their own life or the lives of their loved ones.


21 mei 2026

Morocco

 

 
 One of the most important things to keep in mind when creating a shot list is to be as detailed as possible. Each shot should be given a unique number and described in detail, including the camera angle, movement, and framing. This level of detail helps the director and cinematographer stay on the same page and ensures that everyone knows what is expected of them on set.



19 mei 2026

Remastered



 



REMASTERED
A COMPLETELY NEW WORLD

Experience what you have never experienced before: The old Dutch Masters reworked by the new Dutch Masters. The best Dutch digital studios have created a new world. A world in which you are taken on a parade of the wondrous figures of Hieronymus Bosch, in which you are immersed in the colorful scenes of Van Gogh, and in which you can dance to the beat of Mondrian’s “Victory Boogie Woogie”.
In this unique 60-minute experience, you can also walk through a waterfall, fly your own UFO on a giant LED screen, interact with schools of fish, and sail through the clouds.


 



Ruins of Revolution

 



One of the most important things to keep in mind when creating a shot list is to be as detailed as possible. Each shot should be given a unique number and described in detail, including the camera angle, movement, and framing. This level of detail helps the director and cinematographer stay on the same page and ensures that everyone knows what is expected of them on set.

18 mei 2026

Streetwise

 





What is ANWB Streetwise? ANWB Streetwise is a traffic safety program for primary schools. The complete Streetwise program consists of practical lessons, a continuous digital learning pathway, a Traffic Week, and the Streetwise traffic game for home use. Schools can choose whether to purchase the complete curriculum or just a component, such as the digital learning pathway.

Mutoscope Biograph (Dutch films)

 












The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films. During the height of silent film as a medium, Biograph was the most prominent American film studio and one of the most respected and influential studios worldwide, only rivaled by Germany's UFA, Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri and France's Pathé. The company was home to pioneering director D. W. Griffith and such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.

17 mei 2026

Vermeer alive

 

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be used broadly to describe artworks in many different media, it is also used to refer to a specific art movement of American painters that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

16 mei 2026

Aachen

 

 
  ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services—in particular the introduction of a joint television network. ARD has a budget of €6.9 billion, 22,612 employees and is the largest public broadcaster network in the world

15 mei 2026

Blowing

 

 
 A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same story as the original but uses a different set of casts, and may use actors from the original, alter the theme, or change the flow and setting of the story. In addition, since a remake is released some time after the original work, it may incorporate new technologies, enhancements, and techniques that had not existed or been commonly used when the original work was created

14 mei 2026

Devil on the wall

 




The Devil on the Wall The reformation in Europe was a time of belief in gods and magic where the Catholic Church ruled in matters of morality and law, until their dogma was challenged by the emergence of the new Protestant church. The Reformers made use of the printing press to distribute their alternative ideas… but the Jesuit Priesthood had a more radical plan. “The Jesuits were very important for the Roman Catholic Church because they were multimedia people,” explains Dr Andreas Scheucher, curator of the AV Stumpfl Museum in Austria. “They founded a special form of spiritual theatre – the Jesuit theatre – and used the Magic Lantern. The first projected images from the Laterna Magica were images of the devil.” This was probably the first use of broadcast or projected images for the purposes of propaganda, but as wealth moved from the hands of the church and aristocracy and into the hands of merchants, so did the use of the Laterna Magica.

Muybridge pioneer

 






Edward Muybridge was a famous photographer from the 19th century. He became best known for his experiments with moving images, through which he became an important precursor to film. Who was Muybridge? Muybridge was born in 1830 in England and later moved to the United States. He initially worked as a bookseller, but subsequently gained fame as a photographer of landscapes, cities, and especially the movements of people and animals. What did he do? He investigated exactly how movement occurs. His most famous experiment was photographing a galloping horse. Using multiple cameras in succession, he proved that a horse briefly lifts all four legs off the ground while galloping. His series of photographs later formed an important basis for the development of cinema and animation.

13 mei 2026

Cinema Mystica

 





Cinema Mystica Budapest is a popular immersive digital art experience in the center of Budapest. It combines light art, projections, interactive installations, sound and digital art in multiple thematic spaces. • Approximately 21–23 interactive installations spread over 10 rooms • 360° projections, mirrors, lasers, soundscapes and motion-reactive art • Strongly focused on atmosphere and visual experience • Very popular for photos and social media content Is it worth it? The reactions are mixed but overwhelmingly positive: Many visitors find it “magical”, relaxing and visually impressive. Some people find it a bit small or more of an Instagram/experience exhibition than a traditional museum.

11 mei 2026

GlenCoe

 

 
 A road movie is a genre of film in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the theme of alienation and examining the tensions and issues of the cultural identity of a nation or historical period.


 

9 mei 2026

Film amateur

 

 
 Dick Boer was the son of Adriaan Boer and lived in Bloemendaal. On December 19, 1931, together with Mannus Franken and Leo Krijn, he founded the Nederlandsche Smalfilm Liga (Dutch Amateur Film League). He was the editor of *Het Veerwerk*, a magazine for amateur filmmakers. The first issue appeared on July 10, 1932, and was published by *Focus* in Bloemendaal. A few months later, the magazine became the official organ of the Nederlandsche Smalfilm Liga. Regular contributors to the magazine included his father and Dick Laan, who is often called the first amateur filmmaker of the Netherlands. Dick Boer was also the editor of the magazine *Focus*, the official organ of the Dutch Amateur Photographers Association.


Escape

 

Cutout animation can be made with figures that have joints made with a rivet or pin or, when simulated on a computer, an anchor. These connections act as mechanical linkage, which have the effect of a specific, fixed motion. Similar flat, jointed puppets have been in use in shadow plays for many centuries, such as in the Indonesian wayang tradition and in the "ombres chinoises" that were especially popular in France in the 18th and 19th century. The subgenre of silhouette animation is more closely related to these shadow shows and to the silhouette cutting art that has been popular in Europe especially in the 18th and 19th centuries

7 mei 2026

Rembrandt the Movie

 

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In 1941, a group of Germans settled in Amsterdam. Not soldiers, but civilians. Artists, to be precise. They set to work to create a grand, and until then, most expensive film production in the Netherlands about Rembrandt van Rijn. In UFA Filmstadt Amsterdam, the former Cinetone studios, an enormous set rose in the form of an exact replica of the Rembrandt house on Jodenbreestraat, including the surrounding houses. In addition to the German cast and director, many Dutch people also worked on the film: as extras, set builders, tailors, or lighting technicians. Under the direction of Hans Steinhoff, who had made a name for himself as a Nazi filmmaker with his earlier film Hitlerjunge Quex, a film like a painting emerges with beautiful interplay of light and shadow.

6 mei 2026

Petra in Jordan

 





Location shooting usually requires a location manager, and locations are usually chosen by a location scout. Many popular locations, such as New York City in the United States, Toronto in Canada, and the Isle of Man, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom, have dedicated film offices to encourage location shooting, and to suggest appropriate locations to film-makers. In many cases a second unit is dispatched to film on location, with a second unit director and sometimes with stand-in actors. These shots can then be edited into the final film or TV program alongside studio-shot sequences, to give an authentic flavor, without the expense or trouble of a full-scale location shoot