The Secret of Delft (1916)
- Original title
- Het Geheim van den Vuurtoren
- Directed by
- Maurits Binger
- Genre
- silent film, crime film
- Country
- Netherlands
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A silent crime film set in the Netherlands. It involves a ruined lighthouse and a pier constructed as key locations for the story. The film follows a mystery centered around these structures.
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What happens
The Secret of Delft (Dutch: Het geheim van den vuurtoren) is a 1916 Dutch black and white silent crime film directed by Maurits Binger. The movie was also sold to France, where it was titled Le Secret du Phare. Only fragments of the original movie survived and are being kept in the Dutch Cinema Museum (Nederlands Filmuseum). It is hoped a complete copy survived in France. The movie was an ambitious, large-scale project because it required the construction of a 20 metre high ruined lighthouse, and a 15 metre long pier of the coast of Zandvoort. These constructions meant high production costs, totaling a rumoured 50.000 to 70.000 gulden. The movie also starred the most famous actors in the Netherlands at that time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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