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Description: A sarcastic scrutiny of Americana as told through a survey of Long Island's Levittown--a Post-World War II housing project built as a response to the then-current housing shortage; while the 17,000 cookie cutter homes seemed like the height of affordable modernity in 1947, today they prove to be a bizarre vestige of one era's benign experiment in homogeneity.