| BUS VILLAGE Various shots of bombed-out buses being used as emergency housing | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7979 |
| Catalog #: | 285940 | |
| Clip Number: | 285940-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1935 E | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Year Shot: | 1948 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CITY PLANNING: Housing ECONOMICS: Housing Crisis HABITATS, HUMAN: Shanty town HABITATS, HUMAN: Unusual SOCIAL SERVICES: Housing | |
| Description: | BUS VILLAGE aka SHANTY TOWN IN TOKYO Various shots of bombed-out buses being used as emergency housing. In Tokyo the japanese government has set up a bus village to ease the housing situation. Tokyo, Japan LS General view of one of the three bus villages, made from the remains of buses burned out in B-29 raids, set up in Tokyo by the Japanese government to ease the housing shortage. A very poor shanty town/refugee camp scene. MS Front of one of the houses with washing on a line, a mother holds her young child and cooks over a fire. CU. Side view of a dilapidated "bus house", with young Japanese girl leaving same with school case. MS and CU Two bus houses with children playing in the foreground. MS Two bus houses with mother, a child on her back, hangs out washing in the immediate foreground. CU. Two children outside a bus house. MS and CU Interior of a bus house showing the family in bed, on the floor. MS Children waking up, and rubbing eyes, acting for the camera. | |
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