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Post-WWII - Colour, USA, Housing: Levittown - The Miracle City

Reel Number: 220640-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s,1960s

Country: USA

Location: Levittown, Pennsylvania

TC Begins: 19:52:05

TC Ends: 20:02:04

Duration: 00:09:59

Post-WWII - Colour, USA, Housing & Family Life Aerials over planned suburban city. 19:52:11 - 19:52:18 Titles. Aerials continued. 19:52:27 Montage suburban life: family; community buildings; gardens; woman & children in wading / swimming pool; woman waves goodbye to car leaving garage; tanning; woman washing cars; children leave for school. 19:53:46 High Angle / HA across church & houses beyond; homes; car on street & POV past houses. Children walk & play on grass; man mowing lawn; woman watering plants; picking flowers. 19:54:52 CU umpire, boy pitching & baseball game. 19:55:06 Swimming pools; diving; couples by pool. Child wading. Reservoir. 19:55:43 Night shots of barbecue. 19:55:54 People leaving offices or college. Exterior Churches 19:56:45 Boy in dentists chair, dentist. Nurse w/ young baby in nursery (?). Good Humor ice-cream truck; Office w/ draftsmen at desks / boards. Man & woman stand in front of map of Levittown. Architects w/ drawings of houses. 19:57:52 HA wooded area or golf course near river. Exterior Bucks County Playhouse; estates & horses in pasture. 19:58:14 Aerials of steel mill. 19:58:29 Sign: Levittown Station, Pennsylvania R.R. Commuter train pulling into RR station. 19:58:49 Crane shop rising above shopping center w/ gardens. 19:59:19 Three young women sit, talk & laugh in house / home. Various groups in family home - lifestyle. Children reading & sitting at table having drinks. 20:00:18 Wooden wall studs & rafters on building site, rows of homes under construction & completed single-story houses. Family returning home. 20:01:07 Montage: Overhead shot of swimming pool; dentist; home salesmen; office workers; family home / family life. 20:01:38 Aerials of massive suburban layout of homes, roads, sprawl. Family LIfe; 1950s; 1960s; Daily Life; Promotional Films; Suburbs; Post-WW2; Post-WWII; Planned Community; Planning; Levittown; Landscape Architecture Planning; Advertising; Promotional Film; Shopping Precinct; NOTE: Entire sold at per reel rate.

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