- Title: PA-23E
- Summary: A CEILING ON YOUR HOME!: POST WWII ISSUES FACING RETURNING SOLDIERS CONCERNING FINDING HOUSING & JOBS. ADVOCATES RENT CONTROL TO CONTROL INFLATION FROM POST-WAR HOUSING SHORTAGE. POSTWAR DEFLATION
- Description:01:45:57 - BIRDS FLYING IN SKY. 01:46:02 - MAMA BIRD FEEDING OPEN-MOUTHED CHICKS IN NEST. 01:46:04 - CU BABY BIRDS WITH OPEN MOUTHS 01:46:09 - MAMA BIRD SITS ON NEST COVERING CHICKS. 01:46:11 - TWO BEARS IN ZOO SEATED ON ROCKS WAITING FOR FOOD TO BE THROWN AT THEM. BEAR STANDS & CATCHES FOOD IN MOUTH. 01:46:15 - TIGER KEEPS EYE ON HER CUBS IN ZOO CAGE AS ONE WOBBLES AROUND 01:46:20 - MONKEYS GRAB BARS ON CAGE AS THEY WAIT FOR HANDOUTS. 01:46:25 - PACK OF DOGS IN KENNEL RUN TO CHICKEN WIRE FENCE 01:46:37 - CROWDS OF GIS ON TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP COMING HOME FROM WWII 01:46:47 - TROOPS WAVE TO WOMEN ON SHORE WHO WAVE BACK. 01:46:52 - TROOPS CARRY HUGE DUFFLEBAGS OF DOWN GANGPLANK 01:46:59 - GIS EXIT LECTURE HALL INTO SNOWY GROUNDS WAVING DISCHARGE PAPERS 01:47:04 - SAILORS EXIT LARGE QUONSET HUT BUILDING WAVING THEIR DISCHARGE PAPERS. 01:47:07 - SAILOR HUGS & KISSES ELDERLY MOTHER & FATHER. 01:47:12 - VARIOUS SCENES GIS TALKING WITH COUNSELORS ABOUT THEIR FUTURE PLANS AT HOME 01:47:29 - CU SIGN ON WALL OF BUILDING: "FOR RENT". 01:47:36 - YOUNG COUPLE EXIT HOUSE & WALK DOWN STEPS TO DRIVEWAY FOLLOWED BY REAL ESTATE SALESMAN. 01:47:57 - SALESMAN CATCHES UP TO COUPLE 01:48:02 - CU EX-GI WAVES HIS HEAD, TUCKS AT HIS FEDORA 01:48:12 - CU EX-GI LIVING WITH HIS IN-LAWS SITTING AT KITCHEN TABLE WITH PENCIL & PAPER TRYING TO WORK OUT FINANCES 01:48:17 - MOTHER & FATHER-IN-LAW APPROACH & LOOK OVER HIS SHOULDER 01:48:22 - ZOOM OUT SISTER-IN-LAW LEANS OVER FROM OTHER END OF TABLE TO HELP AS WIFE SITS IN FRGD READING MAGAZINE. 01:48:30 - MAN SHOWS DISGUST AS HIS THREE IN-LAWS HOVER OVER HIM 01:48:38 - CU YOUNG WIFE PERUSES BABY MAGAZINE WITH SMILE ON HER FACE. 01:48:43 - CU NAME ADDED TO MAILBOX INDICATING COUPLES HAVING TO MOVE IN WITH THEIR PARENTS 01:48:51 - YOUNG COUPLE WALK ALONG BUSY BUSINESS DISTRICT. STOP AT JEWELRY STORE & LOOK THROUGH WINDOW AT ENGAGEMENT RINGS 01:48:56 - CU COUPLE AS SEEN FROM INSIDE STORE. 01:49:01 - COUPLE CONTINUE WINDOW SHOPPING & APPROACH REAL ESTATE OFFICE JUST AS WOMAN PUTS SIGN IN WINDOW 01:49:19 - CU SIGN: "SORRY, NO RENTALS" 01:49:41 - SOLDIERS BOARDING TROOPSHIP VIA GANGPLANK. 01:49:46 - NEW 1940s SUBURBAN HOME 01:50:00 - ABOVE VIEW HUGE MILITARY COMPLEX WITH HUNDREDS OF QUONSET HUTS & TENT CITY. 01:50:07 - APARTMENT HOUSE COMPLEX. 01:50:12 - MOBILE HOME COMPLEX. 01:50:17 - ABOVE VIEW VAST WWII ARMY COMPLEX BARRACKS. 01:50:30 - SIGN ABOVE ENTRANCE: "QUEENS PRICE CONTROL BOARD". TILT DOWN TO MAN ENTERING BUILDING AS TWO WOMEN EXIT 01:50:54 - GROUP OF CITIZENS IN GALLERY OF TOWN MEETING. PAN TO OFFICIALS AT MEETING TABLE. 01:50:59 - LANDLORD SEATED AT DESK GETS UP & SITS ON EDGE OF DESK. SPEAKS TO CAMERA ABOUT RENT CONTROL 01:52:00 - MIDDLE-AGED HOUSEWIFE TELLS WHAT SHE THINKS OF RENT CONTROL. 01:52:19 - MAN STANDING IN HALLWAY OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT DOOR. 01:53:04 - CU LEASE BEING SIGNED. BRIBE WITH WAD OF TEN DOLLAR BILLS BEING HANDED OVER 01:53:08 - ELDERLY MAN & WOMAN SEATED IN LIVING ROOM BY FIREPLACE. READING NEWSPAPER, KNITTING 01:53:18 - PAN TO YOUNG BOY PLAYING WITH MODEL AIRPLANE SEATED ON FLOOR. 01:53:22 - OPA MEMBERS MEET TO PROTECT PUBLIC FROM RENT GOUGING. 01:53:29 - ANIMATED CHART SHOWING THREE PILES OF COINS IN FRONT OF GRAPH WITH TITLES: "FOOD, RENT, CLOTHING". 01:54:08 - DRAWING OF LONG LINE OF PEOPLE ON SOUP LINES 01:54:24 - EX-GI COMING HOME FROM WWII LAYS DOWN IN TRAIN SLEEPER CAR READING BOOK. 01:54:34 - RETURNING SOLDIER STRETCHES & TURNS OFF LIGHT. BEGINS TO DREAM OF WIFE & BABY 01:54:53 - YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE LEAN OVER CRIB TO LOOK AT BABY. 01:54:59 - CU MAN IN SLEEPER CAR ASLEEP. 01:55:12 - WORKERS EXITING FACTORIES 01:55:17 - CAPITOL DOME BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 01:55:26 - CONSTRUCTION SITES WITH WORKER FILLING WHEELBARROW WITH CEMENT 01:55:31 - CU CARPENTER SAWING WOOD. 01:55:36 - WALL FRAME BEING LIFTED INTO PLACE BY GROUP OF WORKERS DURING HOUSE CONSTRUCTION 01:55:41 - NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOMES 01:55:46 - TILT UP TO NEW HIGH RISE APARTMENT COMPLEX. 01:55:51 - LONG STRING OF NEW ATTACHED HOMES. 01:55:58 - TILT UP HIGH RISE APARTMENT BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 01:56:01 - ABOVE VIEW WORKERS EXITING SHIP YARD. SIGN ABOVE EXIT: "ALABAMA DRY DOCK & SHIP BUILDING CO". 01:56:04 - VARIOUS VIEWS MILITARY PARADE. U.S. SOLDIERS MARCHING DOWN AVENUE. CROWDS WATCHING FROM SIDELINES. 01:56:22 - CU "NOTICE OF EVICTION" FORM BEING PASSED TO OPA MEMBER 01:56:27 - ELDERLY WOMAN SPEAKING TO OPA MEMBER CONCERNING EVICTION NOTICE. 01:56:32 - ELDERLY MAN REPORTING RENT VIOLATION TO OPA MEMBER. 01:56:49 - YOUNG GI DISCUSSES RENT PROBLEM TO OPA MEMBER IN BUSY OFFICE. 01:57:00 - GENERAL EISENHOWER POSES WITH GENERAL MONTGOMERY & OTHER HIGH RANKING ALLIED OFFICERS. 01:57:09 - VARIOUS VIEWS U.S. SOLDIERS IN VICTORY PARADES
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1946
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: PA-23E