Building Houses

Key Stages 1 and 2: Design and Technology, Construction and Engineering, Geography; Planning, construction and conversion of homes. A look at the operations behind town planning and rebuilding after wartime destruction. Could be used in informing students on the necessary steps needed to raise a new building, whether public, residential or commercial. Questions: What do the films suggest about the changes in planning and construction over the latter C20th?How have regulations and safety measures evolved?

905 Feet High (1929)

Good footage of the Trump Building nearing completion, New York, United States of Building.

Construction School (1968)

Men are taught how to manoeuvre bulldozers and cranes at this Construction Industry Training Centre.

Bricks For Houses (1940)

Educational film showing various stages of brick making.

Building A House (1940)

Educational film showing the various stages of building a house.

Bus House (1949)

Mr. Layton converted double-decker bus for his family to live in.

Town Planning (1943)

A look at town planning for the future, and how things may be rebuilt after the war.

Building Scotland's New Houses (1943)

A Government Official film encouraging school-leavers to learn skills for the building trade