Here's a 1950s home movie showing construction work being done on a suburban home as well as a kid mowing his front lawn. 

Young men work outside a brick home, removing part of a wall brick by brick. Several of the men are shirtless as it appears to have been a hot day. Discarded bricks and cover the home’s yard.

Several men are working on the home’s metal-like roof. A ladder reaching up to the roof rests against the home. It appears that the roofers are fortifying a part of the home’s existing roof.

An older man sits in the shade, watching the workers.

A man sips water from the yard’s water hose.

One man is using a table saw to cut a long  2x4.

A teenage boy runs a gas lawnmower, cutting the grass of a rather steep hill.

Two men are painting the base of the finished roof. Both men wear hats and overalls.

The old man is still in his yard, sitting in a chair, smoking a pipe and looking content.

The painters stop their painting to look at and to pose for the camera.

Later, through a glass-sliding door, the older man exits the finished home with a young man. A woman also exits the home through the same glass door.