Author: MULLENS, W[ILLY] (1880-....),
Title: Enkele pagina's uit mijn gulden boek over Nederlandsch-Indië.[Filmcyclus en causerieën door Willy Mullens]. Orig. edn.
Description: ['s-Gravenhage], Willy Mullens, s.d. [circa], 1929. folio. orig. wraps. Orig. photogr. oval portrait of author at upper left corner of front wrapper. [76]pp. ills. on 14 plates, text-ills., some head-pieces all after author's field-photographs, initials printed in red, tables being lists of contents of films produced. Review of the dutch cinematographer Willy Mullens (1880-..), of his tour through dutch colonial Indonesia, shooting promotional films of various regions by command of dutch administration in the Netherlands. Contents deal with the sea-voyage to Indonesia, across Java by road and railroad, Surakarta and a visit to its Craton, to Java's volcanoes, through Tengger-country, daily life on Java, Soerabai and her festivities, Sumatra: Toba-Bataks, Toba-land and Menangkabau, Bali: Bangli-Gianjar, Legong, Sanhyang on Bali: mysterious ceremonies, cremation on Bali. An interesting cinematographical review of colonial Indonesia fr. the thime. (wrappers foxed, contents fine).

Keywords: film promotion advertising cinema cinematography script culture physical environment java sumatra batak bali legong indonesia colonialism southeast asia