Movie Details
Cast & Crew
P
Peter Delpeut
Director
P
Peter Delpeut
Writer
M
Menno Boerema
Editor
J
Jan van Sandwijk
Sound mixer
P
Paul Veld
Sound Effects Editor
Lyrical Nitrate
Audience Score
50 minDocumentary
Plot
Compilation of film clips from 19051915 found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films Composed as an opera about love and death set to music by Bizet Masek and Puccini