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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blom, Ivo

Titel

Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade

Ist Teil von

• Film Culture in Transition

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2003]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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