| HOUSING PROBLEM IN PARIS Views around a shanty town near Paris built by the homeless and unemployed. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7551 |
| Catalog #: | 507122 | |
| Clip Number: | 507122-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 64 Q | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:29 - 01:44:09 | |
| Location: | Paris, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ECONOMICS: Poverty ECONOMICS: Unemployment GREAT DEPRESSION: Conditions LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France, Paris OCCUPATIONS: Unemployed | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 493391 Tape 7551 B Shanty town in Paris, France, 1933. Title & V/O narration in French. Opening title says the inhabitants will soon be displaced by construction for the enlargement of the university campus. GVs shanty town with structures in various stages of decrepitude. Shots around shanty town in the suburbs of Paris, built by the homeless and unemployed. "Street" that is a muddy mess - -V/O says the slightest rain transforms the street in to a river of mud. People hanging out laundry on clothesline in front of row of shanties. Various shots of structures composed of all sorts of different materials, also some caravans and abandoned rail cars, junk lying all over the place. LS woman carrying baby comes out door of a fairly well kept house or caravan; a baby buggy is parked in front and a dog is on a chain. More shots of dilapidated caravans/ shanties, as V/O relates that this "picturesque and miserable" encampment will have to disappear . | |
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