简介 The ninth Olympic Games took place in Amsterdam in 1928. It seemed to go without saying that a Dutch company should make the official film for this event. Things turned out otherwise, however. When the Nederlandsche Bioscoopbond (NBB) and the organising Dutch Olympic Committee started negotiating the film assignment in 1927, they couldn’t agree on the price. The Olympic Committee also wanted to wait for a bid from a foreign company. In the end, the Committee chose a Swiss producer, but he was unable to arrange financing. For a while it looked like ...