The Wood Shell

Duration: 2000

Year Published: 1980

Complete Record: Subject: Depicts the carpentry construction of the modern home. The viewer sees the daily progress on a residential building site and gains an understanding of the basic steps and procedures in wood frame construction. Along with the architectural plans, the film illustrates the installation of wood sills, girders, floor joints and sub-floor, the framing of stud walls and roof. It also shows installation of windows and the application of building felt, clapboard siding and asphalt roof shingles. With original music. Shots: Truck unloading lumber, blueprints for house, saw cuts through wood, men building house, one has shirt off, hammering, tape measure, finished house.