NFB Collection
Wartime Housing
194320 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Graham McInnes
Script: Leon Shaw
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Munitions and Supply.
Canada's rapid industrial expansion during World War II made an already pressing need for more decent housing acute. Workers flooding into urban centres as well as into areas with no settlement prior to factory construction, were accommodated with small pre-fabricated homes which could be constructed quickly and efficiently.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Industry and Commerce > Construction Industries
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Industrial Development
Credits
- director
- Graham McInnes
- camera
- Grant Crabtree
- editing
- Roger Racine
- music
- Louis Applebaum
- script
- Leon Shaw