J.W. Merkelbach

Johannes Wilhelm Merkelbach (known as Wim; born Amsterdam, 31 October 1871, died 8 December 1922) Verhalen van vroeger , Mies Waltman was a Dutch photographer and cinematographer who was co-founder (together with M.H. Laddé, who was his son-in-law) of the Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach, the first Dutch film studio. In 1896 he co-directed the first Dutch fictional film Gestoorde hengelaarThe First Dutch Film: Gestoorde hengelaar , EYE Film Institute Netherlands and later he co-directed the 1900 film Solser en Hesse.Johannes Wilhelm Merkelbach, EYE Film Institute Netherlands

See also Dutch films before 1910

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