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WE ARE THE PEOPLE

We propose to make a film, the subject matter of which will be people - the greater half of our nation. We want to show how they live now, and to show a way of life in planned communities such as the green belt town offers.

To do this we will employ a device of flash-backs into the histories of five typical American workmen who apply for work on a greenbelt project. The cue for each flash-back lies in one of the questions asked on an application blank. That is, "What is your permanent address?" "Give name of last employer", "Give number of dependents, if any." These flashbacks will be chosen, first, to show living conditions as they are, second, to serve as foils for showing the specific advantages of the greenbelt town. We will follow these episodes with a complete exposition, both pictorial and narrative, of the greenbelt town in its stages of planning, construction and completion.

Following this we will make a rapid survey of houses and living conditions in several parts of the country, and put to the audience the question of what is to be done about the remaining hundreds of thousands of people who are in need of housing.

The film will be able to be completely documentary, relying nowhere upon arranged or unreal scenes. For some of the material we will draw upon stock or news shots. For the rest we will rely upon the actual conditions and people as we find them. The picture will be supplemented by a narrator, by music