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De petroleumbrand te Vlissingen: een overzicht van de ruïne (1917)

701 views · Published 16 February 2018 · 0:45 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2018 · Film & Animation

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Director: unknown | Production Country: The Netherlands | Year: 1917 | Production Company: Kinematograaf Pathé Frères | FLM52475 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/film/de-petroleumbrand-te-vlissingen-een-overzicht-van-de-ru%C3%AFne

In 1917, a devastating fire led to several oil tanks exploding in Vlissingen. The disaster was filmed by Pathé-Courant for the Netherland’s first newsreel. It was shot by H.J.W. van Luijnen, who since 1913 had been the regular cameraman for the Dutch branch of Pathé Frères. In a shot of less than one minute, we see a medium shot of a burning oil tank. A barely recognizable man walks by the tank with a shovel. The entire image has been tinted red. In 1908, the French company Pathé Frères was the first to release a complete newsreel, and their Pathé Journal was soon copied: Gaumont, Eclipse, and Eclair all soon started producing their own newsreels, which would be screened in cinemas. When Pathé opened a movie theatre in Amsterdam in 1911, the Dutch public was also introduced to newsreels, which then consisted largely of foreign news, occasionally supplemented by a Dutch news item. Before that, news items had occasionally been seen in screenings organized by the companies Nöggerath and Alberts Frères.

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De petroleumbrand te Vlissingen: een overzicht van de ruïne (1917)

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