| Instant Rehabilitation | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1759 |
| Catalog #: | 425829 | |
| Clip Number: | 425829-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-032-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:54:40 - 00:55:36 | |
| Location: | New York City, New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CITY PLANNING: Urban Renewal CONSTRUCTION: Houses CONSTRUCTION: Traditional Methods CRIME: Misc LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York OCCUPATIONS: Carpenter OCCUPATIONS: Misc | |
| Description: | "A lower East Side tenement in Manhattan becomes a bright, sparkling modern apartment complex in just forty-eight hours. Demolition crews move in, take out floors, walls, windows, etc..Then kitchen-bathroom units go in through the roof. 48 hours later, Instant Apartments! It's a joint city-state-federal-private project with more to come. LS/TLSs - Construction crews rehabbing a tenement, using wheelbarrows to haul debris away. Panning MS - Markings on walls designating points of demolition. MS - Sign hanging from balcony of fire escape: "Instant Rehab: A Demonstration of Rapid Rehabilitation of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development & the City of New York"; zoom out to LS - Tenement building, series of fire escapes. TLS/MSs - Multiracial lower income families crossing street. MS - Display of keys. MS - New York Mayor JOHN LINDSAY giving new apartment key to girl at ceremony. TLS - Construction crew-- all wearing hard hats -- leaning over rail of stairs at ceremony. Panning MS - Young African-American woman walking down narrow hallway of rehabbed apartment, entering kitchen. This can very well be the conception of Rehabilitation of homes and apartment buildings. | |
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