Solser en Hesse

Solser en Hesse
Lion Solser and Piet Hesse
Directed by	M.H. Laddé and J.W. Merkelbach
Starring	Piet Hesse and Lion Solser
Release dates	1900 (1900) 1906 (1906)
Country	Netherlands
Language	Silent

Solser en Hesse (transl. Solser and Hesse) were two short Dutch silent films by M.H. Laddé and J.W. Merkelbach from 1900^[1] and 1906,^[2] respectively, featuring the comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse. Both running for 1 "act", the first film was distributed by Edison's Ideal in 35mm film. In 1906, a sequel film was commissioned by The Royal Bioscope for release of July 1, 1906. It was produced by F.A. Nöggerath Senior at Filmfabriek F.A. Nöggerath. It was also important, in that it made use of Sound On-Disk. Both films are lost, no copies or visual media of the films are known to exist in the EYE film institute archives in the Netherlands.

The pictures showed the team in fictional dramatizations of their popular stage plays that they had grown so famous for.

See also

• List of Dutch films before 1910

Sources

• (in Dutch) Wereldkroniek, October 1936, pp. 1662–63

1. "Solser en Hesse, 1900". EYE Film Institute Netherlands. Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
2. "Solser en Hesse, 1906". EYE Film Institute Netherlands. Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011.

External links

• Solser en Hesse, EYE Film Institute Netherlands