Morning in the Streets (1959)

Name: Morning in the Streets
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959-03-25

35m

Running Time

Plot.

Denis Mitchell’s companion piece to ‘Night in the City’ follows various conversations during a morning in Liverpool. As children play on bomb sites and in playgrounds, the elderly reminisce about their own childhoods. It’s a city still recovering from the Blitz over a decade before, not yet the home of football and music that it would become. Although much of the shooting took place in Liverpool, areas of Manchester, Salford and Stockport also make an appearance.

Where to Watch.

Free

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Cast & Crew.

Denis Mitchell

Director

Roy Harris

Director

Thomas Henderson

Composer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
March 25, 1959

Status
Released

Running Time
35m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-15

Wiki.

Morning in the Streets is a 1959 BBC television documentary directed by Denis Mitchell and Roy Harris. It was produced by the BBC Northern Film Unit and was first broadcast on 25 March 1959.

The documentary was described simply as "an impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a northern city in the morning". It is an impressionistic slice-of-life documentary, featuring footage of working-class people and street scenes, accompanied by a montage soundtrack of voices conveying opinions and philosophies on life. The film was researched by a writer on Liverpool life and dialect, Frank Shaw.

The music was specially composed by Thomas Henderson and Liverpool songwriter Stan Kelly, and featured the harmonica of classical musician Tommy Reilly.