Community Development With Gunnison Homes

Creator: Vogue Pictures

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Gunnison Homes was a subsidiary of US Steel. Warehouse where prefabricated house parts are built. Great shots of tract housing suburban development.; 06:01:44:08 VS pouring concrete foundation for house on property lot, large clock in front of house foundation, clocks reads 8:00. House progressively built, clock progresses. Gunnison home erected, clock in front of house reads 10:00, finishing roof, clock reads 10:40.; 06:04:41:20 VS plywood moves down conveyor line, workers inspect and touch up plywood, plywood passes through table saws, wood is sized and sanded.; 06:07:27:21 VS workers in factory building doors for prefabricated homes.; 06:07:43:02 CU man hammering nail into trim of wood door, wedding band on finger holding wood.; 06:08:34:21 Checking hinges on door built in factory, door lying on table is shut, worker inserts and leaves key into door lock.; 06:10:24:02 Gunnison home truck pulls out of factory with prefabricated pieces for Gunnison Home.; 06:10:52:26 Man surveying land on construction site for Gunnison Home.; 06:11:21:25 VS large tractor-like machine with chainsaw digging tool cutting into ground of construction site.; 06:12:43:11 VS construction workers building foundation for house in one lot of large tract housing development.; 06:13:45:10 VS construction workers assembling house like puzzle from prefabricated pieces.; 06:16:36:13 Great pan of construction site at end of long strip of suburban tract housing sprawl, construction workers adding to long line of identical houses.; 06:16:51:08 VS suburban tract house community, house variation in color but not form. Narration: “…modern design, volume buying, mass production, efficient distribution, simplified erection procedures, coupled with joint planning by the company with its dealers for community development with Gunnison Homes.”; 06:17:58:10 Zoom in red white and blue logo for Gunnison Homes and USS (United States Steel).; 06:19:52:22 VS shiny silver metal USS (United States Steel) water tower.; 06:21:34:02 VS wood being processed in factory, cutting wood into small pieces, placing in stacks, assembling wood into wall frames.; 06:23:19:07 Inserting wall frame with insulation.; 06:24:05:19 CU wood board passing beneath automated machine with four automatic drills, drilling into wood.; 06:26:48:29 Worker in factory lifts sign “This is a Gunnison Home lot of home for a little money.”