Gestoorde hengelaar (English: Disturbed Angler) was the first Dutch fictional film, Zwijgend en verloren; De Nederlandse stomme film geïnventariseerd , NRCboeken, June 13, 1997)The First Dutch Film: Gestoorde hengelaar , EYE Film Institute NetherlandsGestoorde hengelaar , EYE Film Institute Netherlands made by M.H. LaddéM.H. Laddé , EYE Film Institute Netherlands 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("First Dutch Atelier for the production of Films for the Cinema and Cinematographer by M.H. Ladde and J.W. Merkelbach").Eerste Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach , EYE Film Institute Netherlands
The short silent film was first shown by the traveling cinema Grand Théatre Edison of Christiaan SliekerGeorge Christiaan Slieker (1861-1945), Who's Who of Victorian Cinema on Sunday 29 November 1896 in the Parktuin Tivoli in Utrecht. De eerste filmvertoning in Utrecht: Christiaan Slieker in Park Tivoli, Utrecht Project (archive)
The film was not preserved and no known photos were taken of it. That means that it is a lost film.
It is only known that Gestoorde hengelaar was a slapstick comedy scene (with Lion Solser and Piet Hesse, 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, Germany. A fairground organ provided music during the film's showing.
See also List of Dutch films before 1910
References
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
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