Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade / / Ivo Blom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Blom, Ivo,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; Richly illustrated
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Unidentified Films --; Historical Currencies --; Introduction --; I. La Comète Belge --; II. In the Beginning... --; III. Gold Rush --; IV. Film Market Europe --; V. White Slave Girls and German Kultur --; VI. Onésime et Son Collègue --; VII. Das Ende vom Lied --; VIII. Quo Vadis? --; IX. Afterlife --; X. In Retrospect --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Photo credits --; Index of Film Titles --; General Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048505098; 9783110700671; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048505098?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ivo Blom.

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.