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Identifier:

  • 3514 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

D. Shaw Ashton

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Format:

9.5mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

‘Record of the building of a house. On screen title states "A specification for building a modern house in Dorset". The films proceeds through the following processes - Site inspection by architect and surveyor, clearing the site, laying trenches and adding concrete, bricklaying, placement of joists and lintels, installing outside staircase, building flat asphalted roof, foreman keeping an eye on works, adding steel balustrades, architect regularly inspecting, installing interior partition walls, installing internal staircase, electrically polishing downstairs wooden floors, painting, viewing the finished house’ (EAFA Database).

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

Locations:

  • Dorset, UK (Filming)

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Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive