A Ceiling on Your Home

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A Ceiling on Your Home is a short film from 1945 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

This post-World War II film argues for a continuation of wartime rent control and shows the difficulties veterans face in locating jobs and affordable housing. The sponsor is the U.S. Office of Price Administration which was created by executive order in 1941 to control prices on rent and other essential goods and services. The film includes testimonials by renters and landlords who support continued rent control.

A Ceiling on Your Home
Produced byPathescope Pictures
Production
company
Pathescope Pictures
Distributed byPathescope Pictures
Release date
1945
Running time
11:00
LanguageEnglish
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Rent Control

This post-World War II film argues for a continuation of wartime rent control and shows the difficulties veterans face in locating jobs and affordable housing. The sponsor is the U.S. Office of Price Administration which was created by executive order in 1941 to control prices on rent and other essential goods and services. The film includes testimonials by renters and landlords who support continued rent control.

Shot List

Shows the economic factors affecting postwar deflation and an appeal for public cooperation, an appeal to the public to assist in retail price control, and the difficulties veterans faced in locating jobs and housing. Rent control.

11:39:46:00 Bear in zoo stands up and catches food in mouth.

11:39:50:20 VS Lion and cute baby lions cage at zoo.

11:39;57:26 CU two monkeys hold on to the bars of their cage in zoon; they look like prisoners in prison cell.

11:40:10:14 VS army soldiers returning home on deck of boat; their wives wave and greet them; men disembark ship carrying their duffle bags over their shoulders.

11:41:02:12 CU For Rent sign on corner of brick wall .

11:42:00:08 Handsome man in suit seated at table looks down at magazine on table as his family, parents and sister crowd around him chatting and looking at the magazine too as the man shows nervous expression.

11:42:11:14 CU magazine opened to pages with photographs of babies.

11:42:14:18 CU shot over shoulder of woman reading magazine with photographs of babies on every page.

11:42:37:20 Young couple look at jewelry through store window; shot from inside store window.

11:42:45:08 VS; shot from inside store window of approaching couple who stop to look in window of Licensed Real Estate Broker ; woman inside places sign out that deters couple; CU sign Sorry No Rentals.

11:43:35:15 Pan over 1940s to 1950s Trailer Park.

11:43:54:09 CU O.P.A (Office of Price Administrations) sign Queens Price Control Board; pan down from sign to glass door of building marked Social Security Board O.P.A.

11:45:10:18 CU somewhat smarmy man says to camera What this country needs is a little more golden rule, and a little less rule of gold. How do my tenants like rent control? Well why don t you ask them?

11:45:23:04 MS woman fixes herself up as though before a mirror, adjusts dress and collar, fixes hair, then poses for camera and introduces herself; CU woman answers off camera question What about rent control? I don t know much about it, except we were paying $39 a month rent before the war, and we are still paying it. We just couldn t pay anymore.

11:46:02:03 MS man in vest and tie closes door and introduces himself as Clark, James Clark, radio engineer. CU answers question coming from out of frame What do I think of rent control? Well mister, I ve got a family to support and anything that keeps down the cost of living is alright with me.

11:46:26:21 CU hand signs contract, paper is removed, another hand slams down on Lease paperwork, ten dollar bill is handed over.

11:46:52:06 Man and woman sit in chairs on opposite side of fireplace, woman knits and man reads the newspaper, camera pans down to little boy playing on floor with toy airplane.

11:47:13:23 Illustrated chart show Prices in three columns of coins listed as Food, Rent, and Clothes in descending order of cost; the coin columns explode; cartoon illustration of man falling backward in shock from explosion with label beneath him Mr. Average Man

11:48:53:23 Workers leaving factory walk toward camera.

11:49:25:21 Pan open late 1940s to 1950s housing project building.

11:49:45:04 High angle looks down on audience of factory worker fill stockyard marching toward camera. Metalwork arch over gate reads Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co.

11:50:40:18 Stock shot of President Eisenhower in army uniform seated at desk with two Generals in uniform, one on each side, and four other military officers in uniform stand in row behind them in front of world map.

11:50:54:04 Shot from several stories up in building U.S. Army marches through arch at Washington Square Park in New York City as audience lines street to watch.

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