From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. D1180.7 00:52:05:07 INT, DAY, BW, SOUND, VO male, American accent. Wooden wall with windows fitted, swings past camera in warehouse. VO 'most striking development is a revolutionary, low priced home designed by Buckminster Fuller for mass production.' CU New York paper article with picture, 'Circular House of Mass-Made Parks Exhibited.' INT, exhibition hall, men and women stand around a low display table showing a scale model of the circular home, tree outside. VO 'with their present potential the Nation's aircraft plans could turn these out at the rate of two million a year.' CU model of building towards entrance. Dymaxion House. Architect, retro futurism. 00:52:27:29 INT, DAY, exhibition hall, Buckminster Fuller is interviewed by a man in a suit, smart onlookers observe interaction. Man 'now Mr Fuller, why a round house?' Mr Fuller 'why not? the only reason houses have been rectangular all these years is, that is all to do with the materials we have.' Man who asked the question smokes a pipe behind Mr Fuller's head. Mr Fuller 'now with modern materials and technology we can apply to houses the same efficiency of engineering that we apply to suspension bridges and airplanes.' 00:52:52:04 INT, DAY, exhibition hall, CU Buckminster Fuller twists the central part of the roof on model and lifts it off, '...then later, on top can induce a complete air change every six minutes.' CU onlookers craning to see different parts of model. CU model looking towards front door, a hand removes the rest of the roof. Mr Fuller 'air conditioning and heating only cost a quarter as much as it costs in an ordinary house.' CU interior of house as roof has been lifted. A thin wooden stick points out what Mr Fuller is explaining. Mr Fuller 'here is the living room, its window is forty feet long, these are the two bedrooms, each with its own bath and the kitchen complete with refrigerator, the whole thing is as modern as a streamline plane, the whole thing is hung from a stainless steel mast, weighs only 4 tons in comparison to 150 tons for the ordinary house of equal size, yet it is enormously strong, can withstand winds up to hurricane force and beyond, up to 180 miles per hour.' CU the roof is reinstated, view of the entire house together. CU Buckminster Fuller talking. 00:53:42:20 ENDS

Comments

1. I remember seeing these house models in an old Bugs Bunny animated short where he and Elmer Fudd were in the year 2000 AD