( Huge Flats - Gdansk ) (1971) 

Unissued / unused material.
Colour item.
Huge flats, Gdansk, Poland.
Previously listed as "Huge Workers' Flats - Warsaw".
Various shots bus stopping on dusty road in middle of massive complex of high-rise flats. People get on and off the bus, pan to show flats. Bus passes through complex and stops, pan to show flats. Mounds of earth and building material show complex is still under construction. General views of complex. Man with horse and cart, pedestrians walk past flats. Small children playing in sand left by builders. More shots flats. Panning shot Polish flags flying from balconies. More general shots of complex.
Pathé have been told this is not Warsaw but Gdansk and they are not workers flats but flats for members of the public.
FILM ID:3027.06
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