De Molens die juichen en weenen

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Director: Alfred Machin | Production Country: France | Year: 1912 | Production Company: Hollandsche Film (Netherlands) | FLM43469 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam) - filmdatabase.e...
Fiction film by Alfred Machin about a miller and a drifter.
Stencilled, tinted, toned.
Shot in Volendam on location in 1911, the nitrate print of this film was found in Germany and repatriated to the Netherlands in 1990.
In the autumn of 1911, Hollandsche Film, the Dutch production branch of Pathé Frères, produced six films. Director Alfred Machin came to the Netherlands to make them, bringing a cameraman and actors with him. They set up camp in Volendam, where they filmed De molens die juichen en weenen (The Mills that Cheer and Weep), a film about the revenge that a drifter takes out on a miller. After the miller refuses to give the drifter any alms, the drifter destroys his small wooden mill. In return, the miller whips the drifter. That same night, the drifter returns, and sets fire to the mill. The miller’s family escapes, but the mill burns to the ground.
The storyline is not very elaborate - the dramas from that period, for example by Filmfabriek F.A. Nöggerath, had more complicated plots - though considerable attention is paid to couleur locale. The film was primarily intended for rental or sale abroad, where Holland’s typical landscape did well on the silver screen. In 1912, Hollandsche Film also produced a second series of seven films.
Cast: Germaine Dury, Maurice Mathieu, Germaine Lécuyer, Jacques Vandenne, Marre.
This film is part of the Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema book and its accompanying film programs.
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