Hexagonal Houses

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

494

Date Released

14 Jun 1964

Date recorded

15 May 1964

Length of issue (in feet)

699

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Mexico-In-The-Midlands
2. 2The Student’s Dalek
3. 3Hexagonal Houses
4. 4Land-Rover Rally

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

Pathe synopsis: ... which are, perhaps, a glimpse of tomorrow’s design for living. A big home-building research unit has turned to the bees for inspiration as to the structure of the most economical shape of a house for mass production. It takes only a matter of hours to erect round their steel tree frameworks. This six-sided approach to life is featured, too, at a ...

Keywords

Buildings and structures

Locations

England; Coventry

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Richard Norton

Length of story (in feet)

178

Story extras:

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