| YESTERDAY'S HOMES AND TODAY'S Traditional thatched cottages are contrasted with new modern homes in Silver End, Essex. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6776 |
| Catalog #: | 439800 | |
| Clip Number: | 439800-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 242 | |
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| Location: | Silver End, Essex | |
| Year Shot: | 1932 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Misc | |
| Description: | YESTERDAY'S HOMES AND TODAY'S Story on modern architecture Silver End, Essex, England. First the old. LS old farmhouse, with pond in FG, chickens in yard, wagon in yard at rt. MLS diag. front of ancient looking triangular shaped house of wood, with thatched roof; picket fence around it; other old houses in BG. LS modern house - a boxy geometric white thing. A bit closer shot of the large house. Man walking past it. Fade to shot of one modern house at rt. FG, looking toward another one in same style. MLS part of house, which has a tall narrow piece set into the upper half of the wall at an angle, with windows on its sides. Shot looking diag. at what appears to be a row of these buildings. Interior modern barn, with hogs in rows of stalls; windows in slanting roof let light in. LS sow and piglets in front of modern concrete barn. MS bizarre shot of farmer vaccuuming a cow in FG, with one of the modern boxy structures in BG. This vacuum cleaner is a canister on a strap over his shoulder, with hose attached, and he is running the end of the tube over the cow's back. Large window of butcher shop in rt. FG, and on left in BG children playing in schoolyard in front of modern school building. LS a few children playing by side of pond or river FG, and a man standing near an ancient looking tree; modern building in BG; no other buildings in sight. | |
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