Home Made - A Story of Ready-made House Building
Ford Educational Weekly
03:30:04 Guy carving initials on tree as woman watches, they kiss in front of tree & walk away. Title card.
03:30:27 Family evicted, man instructing workers to take furniture out of house as woman & boy watch. 03:30:52 Couple walks up to house as old man sits on porch; they sit & talk & he shows them an advertisement in newspaper. CU Send for plan book today...Sterling Homes. Couple & old man to office, discuss w/ two men, taken thru mailroom w/ many women working at desks to drafting roof w/ men at drawing boards. Look at pictures of houses; blueprints of floor plans. Back to office.
03:35:02 Into lumber yard building; look at timber yard w/ flat-cars of logs; piles of wood. Sawmill, log pond, logs into mill & man riding large bandsaw carriage sawing planks from log. Men load boards onto railroad cars.
03:36:32 Planks thru automatic planing machine; pre-cut, drilled, glued sanded. Women working w/ trim & molding. Bundling & packing for shipment.
03:39:00 Out of building, into open car & seen along road looking at newspaper. POW past suburban houses of various styles. Walk up to vacant lot w/ sign: lots for sale.
03:40:17 Basement w/ concrete blocks, horse team pulling scraper. Construction w/ carpenters working on floor joists. CU calendar: 28 June 1919. Walls being put up. Calendar 01Jul19 Second floor walls put up; 04Jul19 fully framed.
03:41:37 Finished house (brief).
03:41:51 Wedding ring put on bride’s hand (brief). Out of church or town hall, car waiting in front, people throwing rice. Into car & drive off waving w/ ‘Just Married” sign on back & dragging tin cans.
1920s Prefabricated Housing; Prefab; Innovations; Post-WWI Shortages; Love; Marketing; Gags; Post-WW1;
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Home Made - A Story of Ready-made House Building Ford Educational Weekly 03:30:04 Guy carving initials on tree as woman watches, they kiss in front of tree & walk away. Title card. 03:30:27 Family evicted, man instructing workers to take furniture out of house as woman & boy watch. 03:30:52 Couple walks up to house as old man sits on porch; they sit & talk & he shows them an advertisement in newspaper. CU Send for plan book today...Sterling Homes. Couple & old man to office, discuss w/ two men, taken thru mailroom w/ many women working at desks to drafting roof w/ men at drawing boards. Look at pictures of houses; blueprints of floor plans. Back to office. 03:35:02 Into lumber yard building; look at timber yard w/ flat-cars of logs; piles of wood. Sawmill, log pond, logs into mill & man riding large bandsaw carriage sawing planks from log. Men load boards onto railroad cars. 03:36:32 Planks thru automatic planing machine; pre-cut, drilled, glued sanded. Women working w/ trim & molding. Bundling & packing for shipment. 03:39:00 Out of building, into open car & seen along road looking at newspaper. POW past suburban houses of various styles. Walk up to vacant lot w/ sign: lots for sale. 03:40:17 Basement w/ concrete blocks, horse team pulling scraper. Construction w/ carpenters working on floor joists. CU calendar: 28 June 1919. Walls being put up. Calendar 01Jul19 Second floor walls put up; 04Jul19 fully framed. 03:41:37 Finished house (brief). 03:41:51 Wedding ring put on bride’s hand (brief). Out of church or town hall, car waiting in front, people throwing rice. Into car & drive off waving w/ ‘Just Married” sign on back & dragging tin cans. 1920s Prefabricated Housing; Prefab; Innovations; Post-WWI Shortages; Love; Marketing; Gags; Post-WW1;