Mur en quatre heures
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Other title(s): Wall in four hours
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Genre: Documentary film
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Year: 1958
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Runtime: 00:13:00
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Description: The film shows a factory-made apartment and prefabrication workshops. It reminds the housing shortage and the insalubrity after the WWII. It underscores the need for industrialization of the building and the benefits of rationalization, which are the only solutions to the housing crisis. Some projects and achievements are presented.
This film reminds us of the conditions of the post-war period and of the Reconstruction: housing crisis, shortage of manpower in the building industry, faith in technical progress and industrialization. The first images of the film show us an apartment made in a factory as well as the prefabrication workshops where the reinforced concrete panels are molded. The emphasis is on the need for industrialization of the building industry and the advantages of rationalization. "A few aphorisms underline the point: "A wall is delivered like a piece of furniture, it is unloaded at the port like a cargo... modern, rational, adapted to the customs of our time". "A wall in four hours, twelve thousand people housed in twenty-two months. The film ends with the continuation of the "triumphal way" from the Louvre to La Défense with the construction of the CNIT. (Text machine-translated)
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Keywords: (construction) site / private / city center / suburb / slum / day / construction worker / family / proletariat / street / car / construction work / manufacturing process / social gathering / prewar architecture / modern architecture / under construction / public housing / factory / private company / architecture / bâtiment / béton / crise du logement / matériau / préfabrication / reconstruction / construction de la Défense / Louvre / Paris / Nanterre / France / VICTOR-E project
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Provider: Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme
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Rights: In Copyright / Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme
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Production company: Les Films Caravelle
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Colour: Black & White
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Director: Edouard Berne
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Sound: With sound
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Language: fr