A Place to Live (1941 film)

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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)
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. [2] [3]

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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

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.