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the rest we will rely upon the actual conditions and people as we find them. The pictures will be supplemented by a narrator, by music and by incidental sounds.

Through such a film we hope to build up a public sympathy and understanding of the need for housing for some 40,000,000 of Americans. Second, to popularize the idea of the planned community. 

We wish not only to awaken in our audience some feeling of responsibility and concern for the great segments of population shunted into cast-off sections of cities, and [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] worked-out farms in the country; but we wish also to articulate for our audience their own needs in housing, to spread some understanding of what housing can and ought to be for people of low income.