Cineac Damrak
In a Cineac cinema, a continuous show alternated current affairs with documentaries and short films.
Fotograaf ANP. Beeldbank Stadsarchief Amsterdam Copyright: Publiek domein
Cinema on the Damrak.[1] Pathé opened the first Cinema d'Actualité in Paris in 1934, a cinema where newsreels were shown continuously. On March 17, 1938, a branch opened on the Damrak in Amsterdam.[2] Wim Bunjes, who was friends with Miep and Jan Gies, was a projectionist there.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ See: Wikipedia: Cineac (Amsterdam).
- ^ '1938 in beeld', fotografisch jaaroverzicht van het Algemeen Handelsblad.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 6 October 1942 (with 30 September 1942), in: The Collected Works; transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.