M.H. (Machiel Hendricus) LaddéGeorge Christiaan Slieker (1861-1945), Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (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). Zwijgend en verloren; De Nederlandse stomme film geïnventariseerd , NRCboeken, June 13, 1997M.H. Laddé , EYE Film Institute NetherlandsThe First Dutch Film: Gestoorde hengelaar , EYE Film Institute Netherlands
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). De eerste filmvertoning in Utrecht: Christiaan Slieker in Park Tivoli , Utrecht Project
None of Laddé's films have been preserved.
Laddé also was a well-known photographer with his own studio in Buiksloot (now part of Amsterdam) and was the son-in-law of the photographer J.W. Merkelbach (Johannes Wilhelm, known as Wim) (1873-1922) Verhalen van vroeger , Mies WaltmanJohannes Wilhelm Merkelbach , EYE Film Institute Netherlands who was his business partner.Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach , EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Filmography Gestoorde hengelaar (1896) Spelende kinderen (1896) Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam (1896) Solser en Hesse (1900)
See also Dutch films before 1910
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