| ZUM WOHNPROBLEM IM RUHRGEBIET (aka HOUSING PROBLEMS IN GERMANY) Nissen huts are built to help with the housing problem in the Ruhr region of Germany. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 7889 | |
| Catalog #: | 199112 | |
| Clip Number: | 199112-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1634 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:21:19 - 01:22:46 | |
| Location: | Ruhr Area, Germany | |
| Year Shot: | 1947 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Houses, General CONSTRUCTION: Houses LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany | |
| Description: | ZUM WOHNPROBLEM IM RUHRGEBIET (aka HOUSING PROBLEMS IN GERMANY) Nissen huts are built to help with the housing problem in the Ruhr region of Germany. Ruhr Area, Germany. MS John Burns Hynd, Director of the British Control office for Germany and Austria, arriving at construction site in the Dortmund Area of Germany, for miners' families. Several MS/GV of Hynd walking through site and chatting with miners while snow falls. GVs large backhoe dumping building rubble into back of truck. GVs of large war damaged buildings under restoration, masons are seen doing brick work. GV site were prefabricated Nissen huts are being put together, some men carry metal sheets while others lay brick. GV men doing brick work on front of Nissen hut, a factory with tall smoke stacks is seen in the distance. GVs bedroom inside the Nissen hut, the exposed and curved corrugated metal is seen. GV of dinning room/kitchen. Exterior GV of men on roof of hut stuffing isolation under the corrugated metal. GV block of Nissen huts with workmen walking with building materials. Cool GV Nissen huts with factory in the distance. | |
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