City of Light

The store opened in 1930, was damaged ten years later in World War II, and was demolished in 1960, after a replacement store designed by Marcel Breuer was built. The 20-minute documentary, in English and in Dutch with English subtitles, gives a detailed historical account of Dudok's modern masterpiece, ending with some surprising glimpses (like the one above) of a virtually recreated De Bijenkorf in present-day Rotterdam.