Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade

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by Ivo Blom

Type

Studies

Subject

Silent Cinema

Keywords

early cinema, The Netherlands, distribution

Publishing date

2003

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Film Culture in Transition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 480 pages
6 ½ x 9 ½ inches (16.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

90-5356-463-2
978-90-5356-463-9

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Book Presentation:
The Netherlands Film Museum's Desmet Collection contains the estate of Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956): almost nine hundred European and American films of all genres, a collection of publicity material, and a massive business archive. These three sources form the basis of this book, the first comprehensive reconstruction of Desmet's career. From his nomadic beginnings as a traveling showman to his successful switch to permanent cinema operation and film distribution, Blom shows how Desmet's fortunes encapsulated a series of structural changes within the new culture of the cinema.

See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press