# Oosterschelde is closed

Attention for the planned construction of a pijlerdam in the Oosterschelde to prevent floods such as the flood disaster of 1953. SHOTS: aerial shots of Zeeland; newspaper articles about the pijlerdam; scale test with a bridge at the Waterloopkundig laboratorium in the Noordoostpolder; Waterloopkundig laboratorium 'Thijsse-erf' in Delft tests wave loads for the gates in the dam; boats and fishermen on the Oosterschelde; oyster and mussel processing on board. ARCHIVES MATERIAL: miscellaneous Flood disaster.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_660605)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/europeana/2051906~data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_660605?play=1)