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A Place to Live (1941 film)

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A Place to Live
Directed byIrving Lerner
Production
company
Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association
Release date
  • 1941 (1941)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

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  • Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Temple University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87722-444-7.

References

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  1. ^ "Housing Problems Shown in TCA Movie" (PDF). The Tech. April 3, 1942.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "A Place to Live," The Oscar Site
  4. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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