A Place to Live (1941)

Name: A Place to Live
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1941-01-01

17m

Running Time

Plot.

Inner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the subject of this documentary, which focuses on a child returning from school to his home, a cramped and squalid apartment in a rat-infested slum neighborhood.

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Cast & Crew.

Irving Lerner

Producer / Director

David Diamond

Music

Roger Barlow

Director of Photography

Muriel Rukeyser

Writer

Bill Watts

Narrator

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1941

Status
Released

Running Time
17m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-13

Wiki.

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.

A Place to Live was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).

The Academy Film Archive preserved A Place to Live in 2007.