Title: Housemoving /
Authors: Lamb, Derek.
Publisher: Carpenter Center,
Year: 1969
Subjects: Harvard University.; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.; Automobiles in motion pictures.; Architecture United States History; Architecture United States History; Cities and towns Massachussetts Belmont.; Dwellings United States.; Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.; United States Civilization; Belmont (Mass.) Social life and customs
Abstract: A fast forward depiction of a house moving organized to save an old farm house from destruction. Derek Lamb's stop motion camera follows a three story Arlington residence as it is jacked up onto blocks, cut in half and then moved from Arlington to Belmont (Massachusetts). We see telephone wires taken down and put back up to allow the house to travel down streets, traffic diverted, and stone walls torn down as the house moves in fits and starts to its new home near Belmont Center. The action is sped up through the use of stop motion photography, (timelapse photography) probably 1 to 8 frames per second, compressing the deconstruction and reconstruction of this New England clapboard house into an eight minute film.