Double The House Archive - British Pathé

Double The House Archive

: Dining Room (1951); Tiny living room that can be instantly transformed into the dining room.

: New Village (1968); A modern village which blends with the rural setting is built in Kent.

: Dream Houses (1958); Great ideas and gadgets from the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia.

: Instant Bathroom (1969); Prefabricated bathrooms being constructed in Thames Ditton, Surrey.

: Penthouse Suite (1953); Footage of penthouse Suite designed by Oliver Messel. London.

: New Styles In Furniture (1957); Fabulous fifties furniture - some crazy items including an Emmett creation!

: Kitchen Hats (1959); If you like hats and being in the kitchen - this one's for you.

: Man's Place - The Kitchen (1958); Men in Holland take cooking classes and successfully make a meal.

: Kitchen Gadgets (1950); Good footage of new kitchen implements being demonstrated. Stanmore, Greater London.

: Furniture's New Look (1959); Latest interior decoration and furniture at Earl's Court Furniture Exhibition.

: New Gadgets Are Housewives' Choice (1959); Fun item showing us around the Amsterdam Household Fair.

: Ideal Home Exhibition - Technicolor (1963); Ideal Home Exhibition in Olympia filmed in Technicolor.

: A Tale Of Tiles (1968); A great little film which proposes recycling - making ceramic tiles.

: New Houses To Solve Problem (1952); Harold MacMillan visits new homes built to solve the housing crisis.

: Woman's World AKA Womans World (1968); In the chase towards equality, women are still bent on keeping their looks - claims film. Glamorous & cool!!!

: Prefabs (1940); Footage of prefab being built.

: Latex In The Home AKA Do-It-Yourself In Rubber (1959); Do it yourself in rubber - by making furnishings with foam latex.

: Cottage Conversion AKA Edana Romney (1959); Excellent story showing interior decoration styles of the late 1950s.

: Suburban Street (1964); Semi detached bay fronted possibly 1930s style suburban houses with garages.

: Lichfield - New Style Houses For Renting (1965); Partly prefabricated low cost housing being built in Staffordshire.

: The £250 House (1927); Neville Chamberlain inaugurates some modern bungalows.

: Built In A Day (1930); Building workers create a concrete house at top speed.

: Homes Limited (1945); American prefabricated houses erected across the country.

: Canadian Style Homes (1958); Exhibition of the new Canadian house designs which encourage use of timber from British Columbia.

: Britain From The Air - Various Towns; Britain from the air - really fantastic aerial views of major British towns and cities.

: Family Of Builders (1949); James Valenti is helped by teenage son and daughter when he builds extension onto house.

: Building A House (1940); Educational film showing the various stages of building a house.