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    • Title:Call it home : the house that private enterprise built / produced by Keller Easterling and Richard Prelinger; DVD production by Tal Schori.
    • ISBN:9781481920087
    • Publication:Charleston, SC ; CreateSpace, 2013.
    • Physical Description:2 videodiscs, 4 3/4 in. + viewing guide (66 pages ;19 cm)
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    • Notes:Includes programming guide with bibliography, chronology and graphic study of comparative suburban morphology.
      Sources used: videodisc opening credits and viewing guide.
    • Summary:This DVD version reproduces the original 1992 laserdisc compiled by Keller Easterling and Richard Prelinger and published by The Voyager Company. "Call it Home : the house that private enterprise built" is a history of suburbia from 1934-1960 told with 55 minutes of footage and 2800 stills culled from federal, educational and commercial repositories across the country together with two tracks of archival sound and commentary. The material resets the story of suburbia inthe US by focusing on its origins in the depression rather than the post war era. Originally conceived as an economic instrument to stabilize banks and a flagship industry capable of providing jobs, the early suburban house was poised to become both the germ of explosive post war exurban growth as well as the conomic indicator that it remains today.
    • Variant and related titles:House that private enterprise built
    • Format:Visual Material
    • System details note:DVD video.
    • Contents:Disc one: U.S. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) -- Prewar planning -- U.S. FHA/Veterans Administration -- Building industry --Mass-produced communities -- Disc two: The home: appliances and accoutrements -- Financial and real estate industries -- Highways -- Suburbia: late 1950s reappraisal -- The home: design and interior.
    • Subjects:Suburbs--United States--History.
      Housing--United States.
      Real estate development--United States.
    • Also listed under:Easterling, Keller, 1959- producer.
      Prelinger, Rick, 1953- producer.
      Schori, Tal, producer.