Willy Mullens Movies

Educational film about the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis. Mr van den Heuvel, a cobbler, lives with his wife and two small children in a one-room hovel in a dingy alley. He wants to work, but is usually too tired and is continuously coughing. He ignores the advice of his doctor...

Family Film of the family Van den Bussche. Takes place in the Netherlands, Japan and Indonesia.

A reportage about the rice culture in the Dutch East Indies, with a focus on processing the sawahs (wet rice fields).

A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.

This film follows roughly a thousand children from The Hague ('s-Gravenhage) on their annual outing to Soesterberg, Netherlands.

This corporate film shows the work of Dutch asphalt companies such as the Nederlandsche Basalt Maatschappij, NV Bitumenweg, and H.P. Vale Arnhem. We see the raw materials arriving by barge, the processing of these materials into the final product, and the different stages involved in paving the...

Corporate film of the Stearine Candle Factory in Gouda, Netherlands. Images of the building complex and the production process.

Documentary film featuring the city of Arnhem and it's surrounding areas.

Documentary about Haarlem.

Documentary about the city of Delft.

Activities involving the shipment of sugar from the Dutch East Indies. This shipment took place in Pasuruan, with destinations including Europe, China, Japan, and the former British India. We see shots of samples being taken, and bags being weighed. Loading in canoes, and being transferred to the...

Most shots are slow pans, with the camera moving from left to right. Some sequences are shot from a high vantage point, which leads to beautiful long-shots of the city. The images of Leidseplein with the news kiosk show the comings and goings of people and trams.

A boat trip along the Gouwe & Old Rhine into Boskoop village, Netherlands.

The film opens with a panoramic shot filmed from a church tower. From the tower, we can see the old town of Enkhuizen, Netherlands, and, in the background, the former Zuiderzee. The silent witnesses from these former times are the harbour, and the ‘Dromedaris’ fortress tower.

The film shows the fast and efficient production process at the Rijks Munt in Utrecht, with footage of melting, casting, punching, rolling, and minting coins.

A popular-scientific film about beekeeping. The beekeeper Jan Luberti gives a tour of his Bijenlust bee farm near The Hague, Netherlands, and shows the many aspects of keeping bees, and how they make honey.