Special themes

2026

• The Dangers of Alcohol, 2 January 2026.
• Stars who passed away in 2025, 1 January 2026.

2025

• Happy New Year! Bonne année! Frohes neues Jahr! Buon anno! 新年快乐! С Новым годом!, 31 |December 2025.
• Christmas 2025 with the stars, 25 December 2025.
• New record, 1 December 2025.
• Real Western Heroes: Annie Oakley, 28 November 2025.
• A rare find: an album with Pathé cards from 1911 (2), 23 November 2025.
• Real Western Heroes: Calamity Jane, 21 November 2025.
• Real Western Heroes: Buffalo Bill, 7 November 2025.
• The Five Best Films of 1908, 6 November 2025.
• The Wild West: Real Western Heroes, 1 November 2025.
• 15 Souvenirs from Pordenone, 19 October 2025.



• 16 of our favourite photographers, 12 October 2025.
• Animal Crackers, 3 October 2025.
• EFSP's 10 most-viewed blogs since 2010, 2 October 2025.
• All That Jazz, 5 September 2025.
• Giovanna’s precious gift, 3 September 2025
• Robin Hood on stage and on screen, 22 August 2025.
• Women and Horses in Silent Film, 14 August 2025.
• One Hundred Years Ago: 1925, 26 June 2025.
• Christian Martyrs in Antiquity, 25 June 2025.
• Back to 1905, 22 June 2025.



• A gift by Añelo de la Krotsche, 7 June 2025.
• Ivo's new acquisitions, 27 May 2025.
• Postcards from Rommy's godmother, 9 May 2025.
• Antiquity: Nero on stage and in film, 4 April 2025.
• Antiquity: Julius Caesar, 3 April 2025.
• Paul's 15 Favourites of the Fair, 16 March 2025.
• Antiquity: Cleopatra, 14 March 2025.
• Ivo's 15 Favourites of the Fair, 8 March 2025.
• Stars who passed away in 2024, 1 January 2025.

2024

• Bond girls of the 20th Century, 23 December 2024.
• Peplum!, 11 December 2025.
• 30 Opera stars in the cinema, 7 November 2024.
• Happy birthday, Catherine Deneuve!, 22 October 2024.
• Puccini and silent film, 12 October 2024.
• Silent actors from Latin America, 8 October 2024.
• Art direction by Ben Carré, 6 October 2024.
• Ivo's Fresh Pick From Bologna, 22 July 2024.
• Antiquity: Messalina, 25 June 2024.
• One hundred Years Ago: 1924, 23 June 2024.



• Old Heidelberg on stage and on screen, 29 May 2024.
• 11 German directors of the silent era, 8 May 2024.
• Dance, Girl, Dance, 18 January 2024.
• Hollywood's star pin-ups from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, 12 January 2024.
• Europe's star pin-ups from the 1950s and 1960s, 4 January 2024.
• Stars who passed away in 2023, 1 January 2024.

2023

• Play that song again, 4 November 2023.
• Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the 'Archaeologists', 12 October 2023.
• Crosscurrents of American and European Slapstick, 11 October 2023.
• The early Western and the origins of the Western, 8 October 2023.
• My postcards from the 1980s and 1990s, 30 September 2023.
• Pastels by Aldo Mazza, 9 September 2023.
• Zorro, 2 September 2023.
• Gérard Philipe in East Germany, 19 August 2023.
• Caricatures by Girus, 29 July 2023.
• New acquisitions from Bologna, 18 July 2023.
• One Hundred Years Ago: Films Albatros, 1 July 2023.



• Tribute to Suso Cecchi d’Amico, 29 June 2023.
• Century of Cinema: 1903, 28 June 2023
• Bellissima! Italian starlets of the 1950s, 22 May 2023.
• Cinerama, 8 May 2023.
• Georges Wague on stage, 24 April 2023.
• Let your hair hang down!, 21 April 2023.
• Russell Merritt (1941-2023), 11 March 2023.
• Tarzan, the king of the jungle, 1 February 2023.
• Stars who passed away in 2022, 1 January 2023.

2022

• La multi ani!, 29 December 2022.
• VerzamelJaarbeurs revisited: Paul’s choice, 16 November 2022.
• The 50 most beautiful women of the century!, 30 October 2022.
• 24 Film Stars der Welt, 25 October 2022.
• In Ruritania, anything is possible, 4 October 2022.
• It's a gift, 24 September 2022.
• The white horse, 17 September 2022.
• TV dreamboats of the 1950s and 1960s, 27 August 2022.
• Acin's Italian beauties, 30 July 2022.
• Arrivederci, Il Cinema Ritrovato! (2), 11 July 2022.



• Arrivederci, Il Cinema Ritrovato! (1), 10 July 2022.
• Beach Party!, 24 June 2022.
• Memorable Moustaches, 11 June 2022
• Soviet film postcards of the 1920s, 19 May 2022.
• Cannes Film Festival, 17 May 2022.
• Butywave Shampoo, 12 May 2022.
• Napoleon, 5 May 2022.
• Mephisto, 30 April 2022.
• VerzamelJaarbeurs 2022: Marlene’s treasures, 25 April 2022.
• VerzamelJaarbeurs 2022: Ivo’s treasures, 18 April 2022.



• Tanti auguri, Claudia!, 15 April 2022.
• Verzameljaarbeurs 2022: Paul's treasures, 11 April 2022.
• The Flapper, 9 April 2025.
• The Sheik and sons, 26 March 2022.
• Jackie Coogan's 1924 European Tour, 13 March 2022.
• Actors from the Baltic States, 26 February 2022.
• Teen idols in the 1950s and early 1960s, 19 February 2022.
• Women who wear ties, 12 February 2022.
• How to wear a monocle, 5 February 2022.
• The Early Silent Comedians: USA, 29 January 2022.



• 32 times Ava!, 25 January 2022.
• The Early Silent Comedians: France, 22 January 2022.
• The Early Silent Comedians: Italy, 15 January 2022.
• Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties, 7 Januuary 2022.
• Stars who passed away in 2021, 1 January 2022.

2021

• Dancing the year away with Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding, 29 December 2021
• Carla's 12 feel-good postcards of 2021, 18 December 2021.
• Recently acquired, 8 November 2021.
• The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil, 22 October 2021.
• Paul Verhoeven: ‘Homosexuality is, of course, controversial’, 14 October 2021.



• Enfin le cinéma!, 27 September 2021.
• Art work by Franco Picchioni, 25 September 2021.
• Was Rex Ingram a visionary filmmaker or a dangerous maverick?, 29 August 2021.
• Guess Who, 29 August 2021.
• Ivo's Bologna finds, 28 August 2021.
• 17 New treasures, 21 August 2021.
• Poker anyone?, 11 August 2021.
• Michel Strogoff by Albert Bergeret, 1 August 2021.
• Romy, life lived and fiction, 23 July 2021.
• One hundred years ago: 1921, 22 July 2021.



• Quo vadis?, 20 July 2021.
• Les misérables, 11 July 2021.
• The Autochrome Lumière, 5 July 2021.
• Arcade cowboys, 19 May 2021.
• Mother's Day, 9 May 2021.
• Recently acquired, 10 April 2021.
• Cinema Paradiso, 27 March 2021.
• Artistas de Cine, 23 March 2021.
• Recently acquired: five vintage film flyers, 20 March 2021.
• Portrait by Nanni, 2 March 2021.



• Recently acquired: caricatures from Germany and Italy, 20 February 2021.
• Recently acquired: Dutch pop stars of the 1960s, 17 February 2021.
• The early Henny Porten films, 23 January 2021.
• The Middle Ages and cinema, 9 January 2021.
• Recently acquired, 2 January 2021.
• Stars who passed away in 2020, 1 January 2021.

2020

• Victims of the Spanish Flu, 30 December 2020.
• French mini posters with the rooster, 5 December 2020.
• Produced by Joop Geesink, 25 November 2020.
• Dutch girls in the international cinema, 20 November 2020.
• Produced by Marten Toonder, 19 November 2020.
• Produced by Rudolf Meyer, 14 November 2020.



• Cinefest 2020: Ivo Blom's personal postcard choice, 13 November 2020.
• Knighthood for Tommy Steele, 12 October 2020.
• Enjoy the silence!, 3 October 2020.
• Let's Sing-Along!, 17 September 2020.
• The eldest film stars in the world, 15 August 2020.
• Charlie Chaplin's Essanay films, 27 July 2020.
• Paul Wegener on stage, 25 July 2020.
• Doppelgänger, 18 July 2020.



• Doppelgänger, 18 July 2020.
• Recently acquired: La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica, 12 July 2020.
• What letter? THE letter, 4 July 2020.
• Campari in the 1930s, 27 June 2020.
• The Kingdom of Shadows, 20 June 2020.
• No Il Cinema Ritrovato this Summer!, 19 June 2020.
• New in the GDR Cinemas in 1968, 23 May 2020.
• Found in the attic: Dutch Foto-album, 16 May 2020.
• Male stars of the Comédie-Française, 9 May 2020.
• Vedettes of the Comédie-Française, 2 May 2020.



• New Acquisitions: Early Pathé Stars, 28 April 2020.
• New Acquisitions: German collector cards of the 1950s, 18 April 2020.
• New acquisitions: American leading ladies of the early silent cinema, 11 April 2020.
• What we've found lately, 4 April 2020.
• New acquisitions: Nos artistes dans leurs expressions, 22 February 2020.
• Hanging on the Telephone, 8 February 2020.
• Will It Snow in February?, 1 February 2020.
• Silent Italian comedy, 25 January 2020.
• Stars who passed away in 2019, 1 January 2020.

2019

• German Film Actors of the 21th Century, 29 December 2019.
• Triumph for The Favourite at the European Film Awards 2019, 9 December 2019.
• The Girls of Progress, 7 December 2019.
• New acquisitions: Artiste de The Vitagraph Co., 30 November 2019.
• Yes, EFSP's got a record!, 29 November 2019.
• Artists and Models, 19 November 2019.
• New finds at the International Collectors Fair 2019, 18 November 2019.
• A gift: Cinema publicity in Amsterdam, 17 October 2019.
• Rediscovered: the Silent Joan Crawford, 11 October 2019.
• The Origins of European Slapstick, 7 October 2019.
• Nasty women, 6 October 2019.



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