A Place to Live (1941 film)
| A Place to Live | |
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| Directed by | Irving Lerner |
Production company | Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Place to Live is a 1941 documentary film directed by Irving Lerner and produced by the Philadelphia Housing Association, a nonprofit affordable housing advocacy group. The film aimed to call attention to inner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by focusing on a child's journey from school to his family's cramped and squalid apartment in a rat-infested slum neighborhood.[1][2]
A Place to Live was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).[3]
The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007.[4]
Further reading
[edit]- Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Temple University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87722-444-7.
References
[edit]- ^ "Housing Problems Shown in TCA Movie" (PDF). The Tech. April 3, 1942.
- ^ Prelinger, Rick (2006). THE FIELD GUIDE TO SPONSORED FILMS (PDF). National Film Preservation Foundation. p. 75. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-10.
- ^ "A Place to Live," The Oscar Site
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
External links
[edit]- A Place to Live at IMDb
- The short film A Place to Live is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- A Place to Live at The Travel Film Archive
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- 1941 films
- Affordable housing
- American documentary films
- Sponsored films
- Documentary films about Philadelphia
- Documentary films about poverty in the United States
- 1941 documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- American black-and-white films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language short documentary films
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