Portraits de la Hollande

This article discusses a corpus of travelogues filmed by Pathé Frères in the Netherlands btween 1909 and 1914. Accordinf to the catalogue description, these films mainly present views of rural areas, concentrating on the region around the Zuiderzee, in particular the village of Volendam and the island of Marken, both very important places for tourism at that time. The catalogue descriptions continuously refer to the picturesque qualities of the views and highlight the emblematic aspects of the country: windmills, canals, cheese, local costumes and folkloristic dances. Almost all of the films a... Mehr ...