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.

Bill Watts

Narrator

Frieda N. Blank

The Mother

William Kesselring

The Boy

Irving Lerner

Producer / Director

Bill Watts

Narrator

David Diamond

Music

Roger Barlow

Director of Photography

Muriel Rukeyser

Writer

Max Goberman

Conductor

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1941

Status
Released

Running Time
17m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-04-07

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.