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to the shanties in mining and industrial towns, to the Hoovervilles which skirt large cities, to a rapid survey of blighted areas throughout the country where additional hundreds of thousands of families await some such measure as Resettlement. During this survey we, as the public, are charged with the responsibility to remedy these conditions. 

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THE STORY OF THE FILM 

The picture opens in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]]an [[strikethrough]] un[[/strikethrough]] employment office where men are signed up for work on a Greenbelt project. A long line of men stands outside. Inside men shuffle restlessly on benches waiting to be interviewed by [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a personnel man. Each sits down to fill out an application blank. The questions asked on the blank furnish, one after [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] another, the [[strikethrough]] cut [[/strikethrough]] cue for a flash-back into the life of the man. For each of five men a different question serves to lead us back into his history, enables us to introduce those basic social ills which