Albert Balink

Albert Balink was born on 3 August 1906 in 's-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands, and was a journalist in the Indies, in Semarang and then in Medan, where he wrote about cinema. Self-taught, he founded in 1934 with the Wong brothers a company based in a former tapioca factory in Bandung, which first produced a sound documentary on Merapi. In 1937 a musical film made for another studio was a great success, but the following year he left for the United States, where he was a correspondent for a Dutch daily. He died in Pensacola, Florida, on 8 February 1976.

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• CinemaPareh, Song of the RiceParehAlbert Balink · 1936Cinema