Terang Boelan
Terang Boelan is a 1937 film from the Dutch East Indies. Written by Saeroen, directed by Albert Balink, and starring Rd Mochtar, Roekiah and Eddie T. Effendi. It follows two lovers who elope after one is almost forced to marry an opium smuggler. The film was shot in the Indies and Singapore, and was partially inspired by the 1936 Hollywood film The Jungle Princess.
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Terang Boelan is a 1937 film from the Dutch East Indies. Written by Saeroen, directed by Albert Balink, and starring Rd Mochtar, Roekiah and Eddie T. Effendi. It follows two lovers who elope after one is almost forced to marry an opium smuggler. The film was shot in the Indies and Singapore, and was partially inspired by the 1936 Hollywood film The Jungle Princess. It was aimed at native audiences and included keroncong music, which was popular at the time. The Indonesian film historian Misbach Yusa Biran described it as a turning point in the history of Indonesian cinema for its catalytic effect on the industry’s growth. Like many Indonesian films of the era, Terang Boeran has been lost since at least the 1970s. The story for this film has similarities to the stylistic and criticistic similarities to The Indonesian version of Dorothy Lamour’s The Jungle princess, which served as an inspiration for the film TerangBoelan. The movie was released on 1 January 1937, and earned 200,000 Straits dollars in British Malaya. This success revived the faltering domestic film industry and inspired films aimed at Malay audiences in Malaya, creating a formula of songs, beautiful scenery and romance that was followed for decades afterwards.
The Teng Chun’s dominance was an effect of the Great Depression and changing market trends. The Great Depression had led to the Dutch government collecting higher taxes and cinemas selling tickets at lower prices, ensuring that there was a very low profit margin for local films. As a result, cinemas in the colony mainly showed Hollywood productions, while the domestic industry decayed. In an attempt to show that locally produced, well-made films could be profitable, the Dutch journalist AlbertBalink produced Pareh in 1935 in collaboration with the ethnic Chinese Wong brothers and the Dutch documentary filmmaker Mannus Franken. PareH cost 20 times as much as an average local production, in part because of Balink’s perfectionism, and ultimately a failure. By late 1936, Balink had obtained financial backing from several domestic and foreign companies, and it would be announced that ANIF announced that it would produce several feature films, on 1 January 1937.
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