Media item

2500 slum dwellings left in the capital

Week number 62-14

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

Type:
video
Length:
01:58
Publication date:
22 February 1962
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER621-HRE0001C278

Footage of Amsterdam, with ramshackle houses, a.o. a housing and shopping arcade in the Vijzelstraat, where large families still live in small spaces. Also of new development around Amsterdam and in the Bijlmermeer polder.