EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam

The EYE Film Museum is the Dutch national cinema museum. It opened in 2012, in effect incorporating a number of earlier film museums or film collections. The latter include a collection of films shot in the Dutch East Indies, both by the government and other secular organisations, and by missionary organisations.

There are currently about 40 films in their Dutch East Indies data base (though this is due to be expanded in the future). Many of these films are about the usual topics of colonial films: ports, roads, railways, industrial activities, agriculture, general portraits of the major cities. But there are also about a dozen films of some ethnographic interest, most of which can be viewed on-line. For further details, see here.

 

 

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