STK-ID 21750

Apartment House Construction: shots of signs: "Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority - Regent Park South Project", "Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Regent Park South - Project Office", with PANs and TILTs to doors and people walking in or out of building. Various shots, from a variety of angles and distances, of men at work on cement block foundations, stacking cement bags, sawing with electric hand saws, laying sewer pipes in excavations, plastering foundation. HALSs and level LSs of construction site with completed basements, completed house shell, and with traffic and other apartment houses in the background. PAN along house in construction showing door and window frames, showing men brick-laying between frames. CUs of masons and carpenters showing the operations of brick and mortar laying, mortar mixing, plastering, sawing with electric rip saws; showing the men's faces as they work.

DETAILS

Excerpt from
Regent Park Housing
Location
Toronto
Year
1956
Collection
National Film Board
Available formats
Reel 35 mm, Digital Video Disk, Digital Bétacam
Shooting format
35mm neg b&w
Aspect ratio
4/3
Available resolutions
720 x 486