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Directed by | Irving Lerner |
Production company | Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association |
Distributed by | Brandon Films [1] |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
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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. [2] [3]
A Place to Live was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). [4]
The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007. [5]