Lost films found

A handful of great discoveries was recently made at the archive of the Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. In the course of the year 2000, films arrived at the Museum from a collector, who had kept them in very questionable circumstances for some decades. Elif Rongen from the film collection department contacted me via internet sending me her descriptions of the surviving plots so that I could identify the footage. Some of the films are known to be extant, although only one or two copies seem to be left worldwide. Most notably figure Between the Acts (Zigoto in het Variete) and Romans and Rascals (Zigoto als Julius Caesar) among them. The salient discoveries will be presented in the following, summarising the scenes that have survived, omitting those that are still missing.