Johannes Wilhelm Merkelbach (known as Wim; born

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, Mies Waltman was a Dutch photographer and cinematographer who was co-founder (together with M.H. Laddé, who was his son-in-law) of the ''Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf M.H. Laddé & J.W. Merkelbach'', the first Dutch

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. In 1896 he co-directed the first Dutch

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, EYE Film Institute Netherlands and later he co-directed the 1900 film Solser en Hesse.Johannes Wilhelm Merkelbach

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1873 births 1922 deaths Dutch film directors Artists from Amsterdam Place of birth missing 20th-century Dutch photographers {{Europe-photographer-stub

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