Media item

Construction in the Bijlmermeer

Week number: 67-40

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:09
Publication date:
1 October 1967
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
BG_3151

Ivo Samkalden, the mayor of Amsterdam, drives the first pile for the construction of 5000 houses in the polder of the Bijlmermeer. Also footage of the already constructed viaducts, an old farm, the first block of flats and a scale model of the future development.