Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam
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Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam (English: Swimming Place for Youths in Amsterdam) was a short Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 silent film by M.H. Laddé
M.H. Laddé
M.H. Laddé was a Dutch photographer and film director. He was the director of the first Dutch fictional film, the 1896 comedy Gestoorde hengelaar ....

 from 1896 about the then recently opened swimming pool at the Heiligeweg
Heiligeweg
The Heiligeweg is the street in Amsterdam that used to lead from the Kapel ter Heilige Stede to the Kalverstraat...

 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, which was the first indoor pool in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

). The film is lost.

Sources

A. Briels, Komst en plaats van de Levende Photographie op de Kermis. Een filmhistorische verkenning, Assen (1973), pp. 29-30 K. Dibbets & F. van der Maden (red.), Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse film en bioscoop tot 1940, Weesp (1986), p. 19 R. Smit (red.), Filmhistorie in Eindhoven : 1897-1985, Eindhoven (1985), pp. 11-12 H. de Wit, Film in Utrecht van 1895 tot 1915, Utrecht (1986); Annex: p. 21 H. Rijken, Filmgeschiedenis van Hoorn, Hoorn (1995) C. Bordewijk & J. Moes, Van bioscoopkwaad tot cultuurgoed. Honderd jaar film in Leiden, Utrecht (1995), p. 16 G. Donaldson, 'De eerste Nederlandse speelfilms en de gebroeders Mullens', in: Skrien Nr. 28, januari 1972, p. 8

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