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THE STORY OF THE FILM

The picture opens with a group of men who wait in an employment office to fill out application blanks for jobs on a greenbelt project.  The men are of many types, predominently [[predominantly]] artisans and workmen with a few who might be architects or engineers.

One by one the applicants are interviewed by a personnel man who hands them blanks to be filled and signs them up for work on the project.  The questions on the blank furnish, one after [[strikthrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] another, a cue for a flash-back into [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] some part of the man's life.  These episodes enable us to introduce those conditions of living in cities towns and country which have made urgent the rehousing and re-employment of thousands by the federal government.  These pictures will represent a cross-section of the lives of Americans of small income, will serve to show the backgrounds of men [[strikethrough]] [[appl?]] [[/strikethrough]] applying for work, and likewise the of the families which will live in the greenbelt town.

THE QUESTIONS

In the cities

I "Where is your permanent home?  City" The applicant looks up from the question blank.  We see a section of a city with houses of the types usually occupied by workmen, or other people of modest income.  Most of them are three-story frame houses, several re-fronted with sheets of imitation brick or Johns-Mansville asbestos shingles.  There are the slightly seedy shops which characterize such a neighborhood.  The scene is not one of 

[[left margin]] In the cities [[/left margin]]