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Better Housing News Flashes No. 7

Reel Number: 221543-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1935

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 06:00:01

TC Ends: 06:06:09

Duration: 00:06:08

Better Housing News Flashes No. 7 06:00:13 Title: Winter Home Work 06:00:19 Snow blowing hard & traffic along street, pedestrians crossing, running holding hats. 06:00:28 Man pulling down stairs to attic from ceiling. Woman opens hidden door in wall to show cupboard w/ liquour & jams; cupboard w/ golf clubs. 06:00:47 Boy into room, drops part of painting to form top of desk w/ storage built into wall. Opens top to show bookcase. Closet light turns on when door opens. 06:01:08 Kitchen w/ cupboards built around sink etc. Ventilation fan. Man moves bookshelf for folding Murphy bed. 06:01:33 Ext. of snow drifted from eaves. Kid climbs onto roof. 06:01:38 Title: Housing Act Peps Building. Graphs showing residential construction of 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 thu 1934, all declining figures totalling 92 per cent. 06:02:25 Clippings of FHA programs & increased building activity. 06:02:36 Apartment complex under construction w/ workmen. Houses in various stages of construction; carpenters, laborers. nailing, bricklaying, shingling, stucco applied. Workers taking lunch break on job site. 06:03:25 LS of suburban housing development under construction. CU cover: Amortized Mortgage, government. LS of established large home. 06:03:49 Title: Model Home Mania. Signs pointing. Car pulls up & couple tours, looks around furnished house, he sits down to read; she gets him up. Look at kitchen & appliances, cupboards, ironing board. Modern art deco furniture; tacky decorations. Nursery, master bedroom w/ canopy bed & closet. 06:05:54 Look at sign: model home $4800. $960 cash; 27.62 per month. 06:06:01 Animated logo. Depression; Government Home Ownership Program; Federal Housing Administration; FHA; Propaganda; Americana;

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