Het Waterlooplein verdwijnt(1967)

Name: Het Waterlooplein verdwijnt
Director: Ed van der Elsken
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1967-01-01
Duration: 12 min

In the seventies, Waterlooplein square and the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood faced a great deal of demolition in relation to the construction of Amsterdam’s new opera house, the ‘Stopera’, and the metro system. Van der Elsken did a lot of filming in and around Waterlooplein and its centrepiece, the legendary flea market which faced closure.