A Place to Live (1941 film) explained

A Place to Live
Director:	Irving Lerner
Studio:	Documentary Film Productions for the Philadelphia Housing Association
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.^{[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

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

External links

• • • A Place to Live at The Travel Film Archive

Notes and References

1. News: Housing Problems Shown in TCA Movie . . April 3, 1942.
2. Book: Prelinger, Rick . THE FIELD GUIDE TO SPONSORED FILMS . 2006 . 75 . National Film Preservation Foundation . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080910003142/http://www.filmpreservation.org/projects/sponsored.pdf . 2008-09-10 .
3. http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1941/place2live.htm "A Place to Live," The Oscar Site
4. Web site: Preserved Projects. Academy Film Archive.