A Place to Live (1941 film)

A Place to Live
Directed by	Irving Lerner
Production company	Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association
Distributed by	Brandon Films [1]
Release date	1941 (1941)
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. ^{[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]

Further reading

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

References

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

External links

• 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