'Under the City' (1934) : digging up the future

Transcript

Narrator: Then the top stories whose flats and street frontage give light and air to the streets below. Wireless aerials, attics, small offices and flats, then larger offices and flats.

These levels are cross-sectioned by lifts so that people can pass easily from one level to another to finally the streets themselves - shops and pavements.

But the city does not end at street level. Underneath it's streets and houses is another world. Tunnels and narrow passages intercept the foundations of the houses. There are rivers which have not seen daylight for centuries...