M.H. Laddé

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]

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

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. M.H. Laddé Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
  4. 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
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