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Homes for Workers

Spiffy modern flats await the residents of Liverpool's squalid and insanitary Victorian slums.

Documentary 1939 10 mins

Overview

This breathless documentary charts a short history of Liverpool's slum clearance programme, enthusing over the spiffy modern flats which await the residents of Liverpool's squalid and insanitary Victorian terraces. The film blends aerial photography, maps and graphics, panoramas and interiors, interviews and library footage to paint a stark portrait of city poverty and predict a comfortable labour-saving future.

Sponsored by local gas providers the Liverpool Gas Company - "Pioneers of Home Comfort" - the film seems to take more than a few cues from the renowned documentary Housing Problems (1935), similarly financed by the British Commercial Gas Association.

Featuring

L.H. Keay

Genres

Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Liverpool

Language

English

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