Media item

The 'Bouwcentrum'

Week number: 49-01

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

Type:
video
Length:
02:02
Publication date:
1 January 1949
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
BG_9385

On the bare land that was left after the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940 a building for the Bouwcentrum (Building centre) was placed. This centre serves as an international information and documentation centre for the entire Western European reconstruction. SHOTS: - ext. + int. with library; exhibition of building materials and installation- and electrotechnology; models that give an impression of the reconstruction of a.o. Rotterdam and Arnhem.