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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 another, a cue for a flash-back into 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 re-housing 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 the men applying for work, and likewise of the families which will live in the greenbelt town.

THE QUESTIONS: 

1. "Where is your permanent home? City?"  The applicant looks up from the question blank. We see a section of a city with 

[[left margin]] In the Cities [[/left margin]]

Transcription Notes:
minor spelling corrections (11/03)