JG: Curators Race to Preserve Indonesia’s Cinema History – The - TopicsExpress



          

JG: Curators Race to Preserve Indonesia’s Cinema History – The Jakarta Globe By Marcel Thee – Jakarta. Cinema in Indonesia goes back far longer than even many local cinephiles realize. Lack of credible data and resources make impossible trace its inception, but the early 1920s offer the first signs of Indonesian cinematic life beginning to emerge. Then under Dutch colonial rule, the earliest movie screenings were held under Dutch command and featured imported motion pictures referred to as “Gambar Hidoep” or Living Pictures. In 1928, however, an Indonesia-based company run by ...
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:01:49 +0000

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