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  • Short Summary

    Steel houses which can be built in 7 days are new hope to tackle housing problem, Tooting.

  • Description

    Item title reads - Steel houses coming? First pictures of latest attempt to alleviate housing problem. Tooting, London.

    M/S of the builders fitting the steel pieces of wall to the wooden frame. L/S of them fitting the chimney. M/S as they knock in nails round the doors and windows.

    Intertitle - 'The "Consteelwood" house can be built ready for occupation in 7 days.'

    L/S of people working on the house, its main structure is finished. M/S of men fitting tiles to the roof. M/S of the walls of the house, the camera pans up to the wooden roof and chimney. M/S of them hammering nails into the steel pieces of wall and fitting roof tiles. M/S as they hammer in nails again to the doors, windows and steel walls.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    374.13
    Media URN:
    24872
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    12/02/1925
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:02:24:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:29:20:00 / 01:31:44:00
    Canister:
    G 1163

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