30 October 2020 | PhD Seminar Utrecht, NL (online)

This seminar was dedicated to two important organizations operating in the Dutch landscape of the lantern slide trade.

Jamilla Notebaard and Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves presented:

The Lichtbeelden Vereeniging, also known as Vereeniging tot het houden van voordrachten met Lichtbeelden or Lichtbeelden Instituut, active in the Netherlands between 1898 and 1957.

Nico de Klerk presented:

The Koloniaal Instituut, founded in August 1910 with the creation of a “preparatory committee.” Film lectures as well as lantern lectures were an important part of their propaganda strategy; by the late 1910s and 1920s the organization had consolidated a large catalogue of lantern slides and also readings available for hire.