Rijks-veeartsenijkundige hoogeschool is one of the many documentaries made by Willy Mullens (1880-1962) in the period 1918 – 1924 and produced by his own production company called Haghe Film.

Touring with their mother (Alber en Basch) with a travelling cinema since 1899, Willy and his brother Albert Mullens (1879-1941) formed Alberts Frères in 1901, Holland's most famous travelling cinema.  The choice of this name for their company was determined by the way French cinema dominated the rest of the world at the end of the 19th century, and is a reference to the Frères Lumière.  Thanks to the financial assistance provided by their mother, both brothers managed to buy and screen films around the country, and they also produced films.

By 1911 the brothers split up: Albert became the director of the Amsterdam based Grand Théâtre, while Willy remained in the film business. He owned his own movie theatre in The Hague.

In 1917 Willy Mullens confirmed his reputation by directing and screening Leger- en vlootfilm before Queen Wilhelmina.  This film, ordered by the War Ministry to suggest that despite its neutrality the Netherlands is ready at any moment to defend the country, was a huge success.

In 1918 Mullens founded his own production company called Haghe Film.  It quickly became the most important production company in Holland.  Mullens’ aim was to facilitate the production of newsreels and commissioned films subsidised by the government, national industries and institutions.

In 1921 Mullens made a second film for the Dutch government: Nederland, a promotional film, specially made for exhibition abroad. For this film, Mullens made use of footage from some of his recent films on Dutchindustries. During the 20s Mullens went twice to the Dutch Indies, to produce another corpus of promotional films, both for the government as for Dutch industries as Shell.

In the early 30s, Mullens bought a patent to make subtitles for foreign sound films.  Haghe Film then grew to be the most important and profitable lab of the moment in the Netherlands.

The original music for this film was composed by Martin de Ruiter in 2009.