Timeline
Edison’s Kinetoscope
|The first kinetoscope arrived in Amsterdam on 27 December 1894. K. van Egmond and H.F. Degens set up the machine from Edison’s Kinetoscope Association in a shop in the Regulierbreestraat.
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First Film Screening in the Netherlands
|On 12 March 1896, the first films were screened in the Netherlands.
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Slieker Introduces the Travelling Cinema
|The showman Christiaan Slieker from Leeuwarden is considered the first Dutch travelling cinema showman.
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The First Dutch Film: Gestoorde hengelaar
|On 28 November 1896, the showman Christiaan Slieker screened the first films made in the Netherlands.
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Fire during the Film Show in the Bazar de la Charité
|The Bazar de la Charité, or Charity Sale Bazaar, was housed in a wooden building in the centre of Paris, and had been around for about 10 years before fire destroyed it.
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Fire in Amsterdam’s Variété Flora
|A fire broke out in the afternoon of 29 August 1902, in the offices of F.A.
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Permanent Screenings in Rotterdam’s Tivoli-Wintertuin
|The Tivoli-Wintertuin was opened in Rotterdam on 10 October 1903 under the management of F.P.J. Goeman and A.P.A. Bongers.
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De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje…
|The Mullens brothers (Alberts Frères) recorded the short feature
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Pathé Frères Sales Office Opens in Amsterdam
|Shortly after French production company Pathé Frères started up its Belgian branch, it also opened up a sales office in Amsterdam.
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