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. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 5, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
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