http://www.geocities.com/indischfilmarchief/film.htm
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It comes out as this (look below).... Bad grammar but one can get the gist... Use an online dictionary for the rest, You can browse with Babelfish once you have entered a URL.. its just slower...
First films
Just like the english and the french in their colonies, also the Dutch started film after 1910 on always larger scale in India. The prerecordings which they made there have nearly always the character of a documentary. Real speelfilms in the modern sense of the word were not made, some an exception apart from. Thus around 1915 a very briefly lasting film was made with the title "Mina, the service little girl, will inkoopen do", in which a Javanese woman house is sent by its European mistress to the market to do messages there. Underway she comes her pleased against as a result of which Mina forget the time entirely. If she comes eventually at home its mistress is so angry that Mina - perhaps definite - are sent away. Striking in this small film is, what concerns the beginning and end that there none some can exist doubt for the spectator that the European woman, the mistress, superior are to Mina, the "stupid" native woman. This clear bipartition in the status of the European and those of the domestic population is not independent. In nearly every film of for the years 20, and frequently also in films of later dating, this picture is recognizable. In many cases this picture is still underlined tussentitels as "Balinese is filial in its belief" and "Menschen from the steenen era".
Euro-centrism
To put that the Indian filmgenre could only qualified as European-propagandist and possibly even as racist however a crooked picture creates. A better approach is speak of euro-centrisme. It is the European who is in India present and it seems from time to time only occasional be that there also still a domestic population exists. In 1920, there were about 168,000 Europeans in India on a population of 40 millions "indonesiërs"; if we the film pictures will have believe be read its these figures, published in 1930 foutief and must correctly the other way around. Nevertheless there more interest in the domestic population arose as from 1920. Filmoperateurs went along on exploring forwardings to borneo, Sumatra and later also nieuw-Guinea where the inheemsen with much curiosity examined and were filmed. When halfway the years 20 tourism on bali started himself develop, many films which were shown abroad - mainly in the United States - in cinemas as promofilmpje, were shot also there.
Company films, private Recordings and the end
In the same decade also individuals discovered, in the beginning especially ventures and later also amateurs, the possibilities of the film. On large scale proceeded to commit of only scope promotion films to let manufacture of own bldg. and production process. Much of the films which are now still kept for this reason concern the processing of sugar sheer, sisal, tea, rubber and quinine. The amateur films made in nederlands-Indië have been then defined clear of a another type above. We frequently see familiekiekjes, made during trips, festivals or other special occasions. Although appalling many of this type films are made, the largest part has disappeared of this after 1942 then definitively an end came to the amateurfilmen by the Japanese irruption. The films which anno 2003 are kept have remained products nearly all for the second world war already in the Netherlands. Generally it one or two concerns short film roles which have been taken along by Europeans from India for family members in our country. Unfortunately also this ensure has not been possible that all these unique films are kept have remained. Many people have supposedly disposed of, ignorance, the old film roles or express verstoffen on spots with large temperatuurschommelingen such as attics and cellars. In the past ten years the attention for old has been frequently deeply put away and sometimes also forgets small films has increased. Formerly it only the well-known Indian amateur film expert Jan Brocades Zaalberg was who kept himself - moreover successfully - busy with collecting and conserving 8mm and 16mm films, later the NIOD did that research to "Indian home-movies" and nowadays Indian film file that will make film prerecordings with an unique set-up (to see "aim" and "films") accessibly for those whom they want see.
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