Polygoon Profilti Production

More than cinema newsreel

This film is a publicity film by and about Polygoon Profility Production. This producer became known in the Netherlands through the Polygoon newsreels. To resolve misunderstandings immediately: this film has nothing to do with Joop Geesink's work. This film is by a contemporary and also competitor.
With this informative film, the makers wanted to convince potential clients of their versatility. At the time, Polygoon profility was a direct competitor of Joop Geesink's Dollywood and of Geesink's Starfilm. This film shows that Polygoon not only made newsreel footage, but also corporate films and even trickery. That is also the reason this film is being shown. It gives a good idea of the way of working in the early 1950s. The Geesink studios worked in a similar way with similar equipment.

The film features a Dutch voiceover. This one explains in an almost heroic way the unprecedented possibilities offered by the medium of film. In addition, the voiceo often narrates what is being portrayed on screen. Something that would be unnecessary nowadays. For non-Dutch viewers, the reassurance is that much of the voiceover is a recommendation from the studio, which likes to feature different clients and locations to show the diversity of the artists.

Trivia

The film gives examples of application of 2D cartoon (cel animation) and 3D stop-motion trickery. As far as we know, Polygoon Profilti did not make any films with puppet animation. An example of their animation work is the cinema advertisement for BONERA candy (1944).

Duration

This film has a length of over 20 minutes. This running time was a standard length for corporate presentations for decades. They were presented as short cinema films, often within their own premises to inform customers. Nowadays, a corporate film would be no longer than 2 minutes and mostly offered online. Joop Geesink also presented his company with films. Here, the studio mainly concentrated on promoting puppet animation. An example of this is ‘Fifty pairs of hands’, which explains in ‘only’ 12 minutes the whole process of making puppet films in a popular way. Furthermore, it was common to show a collage of diverse stop-motion productions to convince a potential customer of its versatility.