As a result, cinemas in the colony mainly showed Hollywood productions, while the domestic industry decayed. The Dutch East Indies government collected higher taxes and cinemas sold tickets at lower prices, ensuring that there was a meagre profit margin for local films. Īfter the Great Depression reached the Indies, production slowed tremendously. By the early 1930s Chinese-owned businesses were the dominating force in the country's film industry. Several Chinese owned start-ups are recorded from 1929 on, including Nancing Film with Resia Boroboedoer (1928) and Tan's Film with Njai Dasima (1929).
Although the Wongs went on hiatus, other ethnic Chinese became involved in film. Įthnic Chinese directors and producers, capitalising on the success of films produced in Shanghai, China, became involved in the colony's cinema beginning in 1928, when Nelson Wong completed Lily van Java. A year later, the second novel to be adapted to film in Indonesia, Setangan Berloemoer Darah, was produced by Tan Boen Soan. Owing to Loetoeng Kasaroeng 's limited release, Kruger was able to advertise his film as the colony's first. Krugers – who had served as a technician and cinematographer for Loetoeng Kasaroeng – released his directorial debut (the second film in the Indies), Eulis Atjih. This adaptation of the Sundanese legend was made with local actors by the NV Java Film Company in Bandung and premiered on 31 December 1926 at the Elite and Majestic Theatres in Bandung.
The first domestically produced film in the Indies was in 1926: Loetoeng Kasaroeng, a silent film by Dutch director L. was announced, but the work was not completed. By 1923 a local feature film production spearheaded by the Middle East Film Co. Domestic production of documentaries had begun in 1911 but were unable to compete with imported works. The first showing of films in the Dutch East Indies was in 1900, and over the next twenty years foreign productions – generally from the United States – were imported and shown throughout the country. Īdvertisement for Loetoeng Kasaroeng, the first fiction film produced in what is now Indonesia
FILM INDO YOUTUBE MOVIE
21 Cineplex, CGV Cinemas and Cinépolis (previously Cinemaxx) currently dominate the movie theatre industry in Indonesia. As of 2019, there are about 2,000 screens in Indonesia, which is expected to reach 3,000 by 2020. The Indonesian film industry released 230 films in 2019. The number of moviegoers in the country were more than 52 million in 2019. Though the film industry is currently the fastest-growing sub-sector of Indonesia's creative economy, it went through a long, struggling period. The first movie theatre in Jakarta was Alhamra, which was opened in 1931. ĭuring 1926, there were movie theatres named as Oriental and Elita in Bandung. However, the first domestically produced film in the Dutch East Indies was in 1926: Loetoeng Kasaroeng, a silent film, which was an adaptation of the Sundanese legend of the same name.
During that time, there was a film called Onze Oost or Timur Milik Kita (1919). Domestic production of documentaries had begun in 1911. Documentaries about the nature and life of Indonesia, sponsored by the Dutch East Indies government were made by the Dutch people or Europeans. Until the 1920s, cinema in Indonesia belonged only to the Europeans, with silent documentaries and feature films imported from France and the United States. Cinema of Indonesia has a long history dated back to 1900.
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