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Device - The employment office on a Greenbelt project, a line of men waiting for employment, a personnel man. The men must fill out application blanks. This furnishes a natural take-off to show the envoronments, etc. of the relief workers employed on the project.

Questions asked are of the following type:

[[left margin]] Question, Occupation? [[/left margin]]

This gives the cue for a flash-back to the share-cropper situation. An eviction, the housing conditions among share-croppers. (Personnel man says: "Report for work Monday."

[[left margin]] Schooling? [[/left margin]]

Flashback to child labor.

[[left margin]] Former Employer? [[/left margin]]

The cue for a flash-back to a shut-down factory. Unemployment in a city industrial area. (Personnel man says, "Report for work Monday."

[[left margin]] Family, how many, etc? [[/left margin]]

Flash-back to a tenement fire, people running, family coming down the ladder; any good news shot. (Personnel man says "Report for work Monday."

[[left margin]] Questions about health? [[/left margin]]

Flash-back to small town slums - vile [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] outhouses, water standing, etc. Dark, unhealthy interiors. (Personnel man