Gestoorde hengelaar was the first Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 fictional film

Fictional film

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, made by M.H. Laddé

M.H. Laddé

M.H. Laddé was a Dutch photographer and film director. He was the director of the first Dutch fictional film, the 1896 comedy Gestoorde hengelaar ....

 in 1896 and was produced by the studio Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf van M.H. Laddé en J.W. Merkelbach.
The short silent film

Silent film

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 was first shown by the traveling cinema Grand Théatre Edison of Christiaan Slieker

Christiaan Slieker

Christiaan Slieker was a Dutch film exhibitor in the early days of cinematography. He grew up in a Frisian family of travelling showpeople....

 on Sunday, November 29, 1896 in the Parktuin Tivoli in Utrecht

Utrecht

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.

The film was not preserved and no known photos were taken of it.

It is only known that Gestoorde hengelaar was a slapstick

Slapstick

Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.- Origins :The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the 'slap stick' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte...

 comedy

Comedy

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 scene (with Lion Solser

Lion Solser

Abraham Solser was a Dutch comedian and early film actor of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born to Johannes Solser and Engelina Florina Hartlooper....

 and Piet Hesse

Piet Hesse

Piet Hesse was a Dutch comedian of the late 19th and early 20th century.He collaborated with Lion Solser. Together they featured in the 1896 comedy film Gestoorde hengelaar by M.H. Laddé, which was the first Dutch fictional film...

, who were then popular Dutch comedians) from the flyer which Slieker distributed.

The film was shown in Slieker's cinema using a cinematograph, made by H.O. Foersterling & Co from Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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. A fairground organ

Fairground organ

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 provided music

Organ (music)

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during the film's showing.

Sources

A. Briels, Komst en plaats van de Levende Photographie op de kermis. Een filmhistorische verkenning, Assen (1973), p. 30 K. Dibbets & F. van der Maden (red.), Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse film en bioscoop tot 1940, Weesp (1986), p. 19

• G. Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow. A Filmography of Dutch Silent Fiction, Amsterdam (1997), p. 51