M.H. Laddé

M.H. Laddé at the wheel of his Willys-Knight in front of his house in Nigtevecht
Photograph by M.H. Laddé of J.W. Merkelbach

M.H. (Machiel Hendricus) Laddé[1] (5 November 1866 – 18 February 1932) was a Dutch photographer and film director. He was the director of the first Dutch fictional film, the 1896 comedy Gestoorde hengelaar (English: Disturbed Angler).[2][3][4]

Between 1896 and c.1906 Laddé made several short silent movies for the studio Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach. These were shown by the traveling cinema of Christiaan Slieker (1861-1945).[5]

None of Laddé's films have been preserved.

Laddé also was a well-known photographer with his own studio in Buiksloot[4] (now part of Amsterdam) and was the son-in-law of the photographer J.W. Merkelbach (Johannes Wilhelm, known as Wim) (1873-1922)[3][6][7] who was his business partner.[8]

Filmography

See also

  • Dutch films before 1910

References

  1. ^ George Christiaan Slieker (1861-1945), Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
  2. ^ (in Dutch) Zwijgend en verloren; De Nederlandse stomme film geïnventariseerd Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, NRCboeken, June 13, 1997
  3. ^ a b M.H. Laddé Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
  4. ^ a b The First Dutch Film: Gestoorde hengelaar Archived 2011-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
  5. ^ (in Dutch) De eerste filmvertoning in Utrecht: Christiaan Slieker in Park Tivoli Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, Utrecht Project
  6. ^ (in Dutch) Verhalen van vroeger Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Mies Waltman
  7. ^ Johannes Wilhelm Merkelbach Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
  8. ^ Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, EYE Film Institute Netherlands

External links

  • M.H. Laddé at IMDb
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