Sejarah Film 1900–1950
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Sejarah Film 1900–1950: Bikin Film di Jawa is a 2009 history of the cinema of the Dutch East Indies written by Misbach Yusa Biran. It was published by Komunitas Bambu in collaboration with the Jakarta
Cover, first edition
An example of an image from the book: a 1905 advertisement for a film screening
Darah dan Doa
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Darah dan Doa is a 1950 Indonesian war film directed and produced by Usmar Ismail, telling the story of the Siliwangi Division and its leader Captain Sudarto on a march to West Java. Following Ismail'
Sejarah Film 1900–1950
…entertainment industry during the period. At the end of this introduction, he suggests that the films from this period, released before Usmar Ismail's Darah dan Doa (1950), could not be considered truly "Indonesian" as they were commercially oriented. The following chapter covers the early efforts to make documentaries…
Magazine advertisement, Aneka (1 September 1950)
The Siliwangi Division in combat, in a scene from the film
Usmar Ismail, the film's director and producer
Del Juzar in 1953; he was cast in the lead role of Sudarto.