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Rough Synopsis of Greenbelt two-reel movie

I. WASHINGTON - TRAVEL MECCA

Washington is the mecca for thousands of travelers annually. From crossroads towns and distant cities the traveler consults time tables and excursion notices in expectation of a trip to the capital.

For these thousands the Capital is a real mecca - a vacation spot where they can see majestic memorials, beautiful parks and public buildings now being completed in a great capital plan conceived by L'Infant, a Frenchman with a vision for city development.

II. WASHINGTON AT WORK

But there is another side to Washington - the Washington that works.  The Federal government employes [[employs]], hundreds of thousands of workers ___ of whom are concentrated in ___ buildings in the Capital. They type, file, study, plan, experiment, and perform a hundred other tasks.

At 4:30 o'clock downtown buildings disgorge these employes [[employees]] by the thousand.  To street cars, buses and autos they file to hurry to their respective homes. These homes may be well furnished apartments for officials; houses for those who can afford them but for many the homes are cramped apartments or a room in a boarding house just one step above a tenement.

III. WASHINGTON AT HOME

With a housing shortage and rents high the magic word "home" not always bear the charm with which it is popularly supposed to be endowed.  With rents high a large share of the little government worker's

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Purpose- by a series of successive ideas to build up story of dismal living conditions, small salaried city workers as typifies in Wash., the need for housing, etc.

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Wash. impressive. 1 colonades, [[?]], marble pieces, domes.
Pediments and formal gardens. 
Wash. [[? ? ?]] etc. so [[? ?]]
Where tourists come to gasp & photograph.

Qed, the Wash. clerks & typists, where ten thousand elevators, must be run, & daily millions of letters must be filed
-Wash. dismal small crowded flats by [[? ?]] apts where for $40 mo. a man I urge may share a room having a [[?]] 2-burner stove, and an iron bed behind a curtain.
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2 asp. of nat. cap. - 2 aspects of national capital