Kleurrijke affiches en animatie

Programme

• Aleppo (DE [?] 1916 [?], 9’)

  Documentary featuring footage from Aleppo during World War I. The film may have been shot by the German army as suggested by its interest in ‘Deutscher Verbindungsoffizier der Militär Mission Alepppo’ and the Ottoman soldiers around the railway station. Furthermore, the film also provides colourised footage of the Aleppo’s citadel, the Shaykh Abu Bakr Mosque, children, market traders and craftsmen. Viewing these 110-year-old images feels special, particularly with the renewed attention for Syria. The film was discovered in Eye’s nitrate collection in 2024 and preserved.

• Een kleurrijke reis door Eye’s affichecollectie

  Film posters are coloured and colourful. From the Russian avant-garde to modern festival posters, the graphic designer’s vision determines whether the results are sober or an explosion of colour. Eye’s astounding poster collection (over 63,000 unique posters) served as inspiration fort his presentation by curator Soeluh van den Berg on the theme of ‘colour’. This selection from the ginormous number of designs will reveal both seldom-seen images as well as famous titles, though the latter can also have unexpected sides!

• Onrust en kleur: de puppetoons van George Pàl

  In 1934, Hungarian animator George Pàl travelled to the Netherlands at the invitation of the Philips electronics company to create a number of adverts. Alongside cartoons, Pàl also made puppet films using his special ‘puppetoon’ technique that even won him an Oscar in 1943. In 1939, Pàl left fort he USA where he ultimately started a new career as the director/producer of science fiction films including Destination Moon and The Time Machine. In recent years, Eye has restored the ‘puppetoons’ Pàl made in the Netherlands. Eye curator Leenke Ripmeester will talk about this remarkable Dutch episode in Pàl’s career and how colour played its own unique role in this against the background of impending war in Europe.

• Filmquiz: Missverkiezing (NL [?] 1920 [?], 8’)

  The film quiz is introduced to the cinema audience with the words: “This pageant was organised in Paris. The Dutch audience has to guess who will be voted the most beautiful woman and her age”. The audience subsequently sees portraits of women and their code names.

• Wie zijn zij? (NL [?] 1925 [?], 2’)

  Wie zijn zij? [Who are they?] shows a number of film stars with just their initials and the audience is asked to identify them. Apparently, this type of interactive game was popular during the 1920s. It is currently hard to ascertain how this was done and we also don’t know whether there was anything to be won by providing the right answers! Both films were preserved from nitrate by Eye in 2024.