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Call it home : the house that private enterprise built
Title
Call it home : the house that private enterprise built / produced by Keller Easterling and Richard Prelinger; DVD production by Tal Schori.
ISBN
9781481920087
Publication
Charleston, SC ; CreateSpace, 2013.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs, 4 3/4 in. + viewing guide (66 pages ;19 cm)
Notes
Includes programming guide with bibliography, chronology and graphic study of comparative suburban morphology.
Sources used: videodisc opening credits and viewing guide.
Summary
This DVD version reproduces the original 1992 laserdisc compiled by Keller Easterling and Richard Prelinger and published by The Voyager Company. "Call it Home : the house that private enterprise built" is a history of suburbia from 1934-1960 told with 55 minutes of footage and 2800 stills culled from federal, educational and commercial repositories across the country together with two tracks of archival sound and commentary. The material resets the story of suburbia inthe US by focusing on its origins in the depression rather than the post war era. Originally conceived as an economic instrument to stabilize banks and a flagship industry capable of providing jobs, the early suburban house was poised to become both the germ of explosive post war exurban growth as well as the conomic indicator that it remains today.
Variant and related titles
House that private enterprise built
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2013
System details note
DVD video.
Contents
Disc one: U.S. Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Prewar planning
U.S. FHA/Veterans Administration
Building industry
Mass-produced communities
Disc two: The home: appliances and accoutrements
Financial and real estate industries
Highways
Suburbia: late 1950s reappraisal
The home: design and interior.
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