Film: Old and New in Indonesia

The turning-point was reached. Indonesia was ready to go its own way. The propaganda in the film 'Old and new in Indonesia' which prepared public opinion for a swift turning over of the colony sounded grand and compelling. But was the Netherlands ready? The film from 1947 was taken out of circulation and never screened. The film is introduced by Gerda Jansen Hendriks. Dutch spoken.

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Date and time Thursday 11 January 2007 21:30 tot 22:20 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

The turning-point was reached. Indonesia was ready to go its own way. The propaganda in the film 'Old and new in Indonesia' which prepared public opinion for a swift turning over of the colony sounded grand and compelling. But was the Netherlands ready? The film from 1947 was taken out of circulation - there was opposition to its republican standpoint - and never screened. The film was introduced by Gerda Jansen Hendriks.

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Gerda Jansen Hendriks

graduated in 1984 at the department of New and Theoretical History at the University of Amsterdam with an undergraduate thesis and additional documentation on the image of our colonial war with Indonesia from 1940-1950 in Dutch cinema newsreels. Later she worked as a reporter with currect affairs programmes. She made several episodes for the historical programme series Na de oorlog (After the war) and De Affaire (The Affair). She is cofounder of the programme Andere tijden (Different Times) and works as a director there. Much talked-about episodes were the engagement of Princess beatrix and Prince Claus and Prince Bernhard's interference with Papua New Guinea.
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