Title & Author:

Lustron : the house America's been waiting for / writer/producer/director, Ed Moore, Bill Kubota, Bill Ferehawk ; a co-production of WOSU-TV, the Ohio State University, and KDN Videoworks, Inc.

Publication:

Madison Heights, MI : KDN Videoworks, [2002]
©2002

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes:
Special features: Deleted scenes (13 min.); Music video "The Lustron Home Blues" by Leonardo (4 min.).
Special features: Deleted scenes; The Lustron home blues (music video featuring Leonardo).
Intro -- In St. Louis -- Housing crisis -- Risky loan -- Believer -- New York premiere -- Truman's nephew -- Revolution -- Bathtub blues -- Suicide loan -- Kiss of death -- Witness -- Where the money went -- Still standing -- Original homeowners -- Leonardo/Credits.
Camera, Bill Kubota ; editor, Scott Kemp ; original music, Tony Humecke, Chip Smith ; research, Bill Ferehawk, Bill Kubota, Ed Moore ; historical consultant, Kristin Szylvian.
Narrator, Ed Moore; commentators, Joe Williams, Kathryn Welch, Wilson W. Wyatt, Kristin Szylvian, Sally Beiersdorf, Doug Knerr, Ron Sandborg, Richard Jones, Harold Denton, Hal Starr, James Barton, Bette Wallach, Richard Reedy, Joseph Tucker, Robert Runyan, Harold Warren, Alonzo Hamby, Arnold Newman, Pat Sutton, Ken Beiersdorf, William and Millie Sexton, Irene Swanson, Ed Newman, Jean Coleman, Florence and Warren Highstone, Leonardo.
DVD; NTSC; Dolby Digital sound.
In English.

Summary:

In 1945, WWII was over, but the peace was yet to be won. With millions of veterans returned from abroad, the U.S. faced the worst housing shortage in its history. Enter Carl Strandlund--inventor, holder of 150 patents, civilian war hero for his innovations in army tank plate production. Strandlund envisioned the mass-production of porcelain-enameled steel houses on an auto-style assembly line-the Lustron home. Lustron represented a logical extension of the technological and organizational advances made during the war years to architecture, and at a projected 100 houses a day, would be key to solving the housing crisis. Poised for success, Washington opportunists marked Lustron as an easy money target, and threats, a take-over, bankruptcy, and finally a scandal involving Congressional hearings resulted. The story of the Lustron Corporation is an illuminating case study in the history of the American prefabricated housing industry during the first half of the 20th century.

Subject:

Strandlund, Carl, 1899-1974.
Strandlund, Carl, d. 1974
Lustron Corporation History.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation History.
Lustron Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Prefabricated houses United States History.
Steel houses United States History.
Housing United States History 20th century.
Business failures United States.
Business failures
Housing
Prefabricated houses
Steel houses
Buildings, Prefabricated United States History.
House construction United States History.
Experimental houses United States History.
Housing United States History.
Columbus (Ohio)
Ohio Columbus
United States
Prefabricated Houses United States 1940-1950.
Porcelain enamel steel Houses United States 1940-1950.
Steel Houses United States 1940-1950.
Single-family dwellings United States 1940-1950.
Experimental buildings United States 1940-1950.
Housing United States 1940-1950.

Form/genre:

DVDs.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Optical disks.
Company histories.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
documentary film.
Documentary films
History
Nonfiction films
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.

Added entries:

Moore, Ed, narrator, screenwriter, film producer, film director, researcher.
Kubota, Bill, screenwriter, film producer, film director, director of photography, researcher.
Ferehawk, Bill, screenwriter, film producer, film director, researcher.
Kemp, Scott, editor of moving image work.
Humecke, Tony, composer (expression)
Moore, Ed
Kubota, Bill
Ferehawk, Bill
Kemp, Scott
WOSU-TV (Television station : Columbus, Ohio), production company.
Ohio State University, production company.
KDN Videoworks, Inc., production company.
WOSU-TV (Television station : Columbus, Ohio)
Ohio State University
KDN Videoworks

House America's been waiting for

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 247492
Call No.: TH4819.P7 L87 2002
Status: Available