A Place to Live

  • Documentary
1/1/1941
17

Storyline

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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      • Geronimo1967

        It is quite interesting to look at this film, from a British perspective, and observe that though we exported a great deal to the USA - a bicameral parliamentary system, Magna Carta, Charlie Chaplin et al - I hadnt quite appreciated that slum dwellings was also one of them! This is a rather stark depiction of a young boys life in a Philadelphia that has seen many better days. It showcases all the historic sights of this former American capital city before contrasting those images with some squalid sights that would not have look out of place in a bombed out London, or Manchester, or Glasgow - and at least they could blame the Nazis! That these tiny accommodations were ever built in the first place is a question worth asking, but that they w...

        July 27, 2025
      • Geronimo1967

        It is quite interesting to look at this film, from a British perspective, and observe that though we exported a great deal to the USA - a bicameral parliamentary system, Magna Carta, Charlie Chaplin et al - I hadnt quite appreciated that slum dwellings was also one of them! This is a rather stark depiction of a young boys life in a Philadelphia that has seen many better days. It showcases all the historic sights of this former American capital city before contrasting those images with some squalid sights that would not have look out of place in a bombed out London, or Manchester, or Glasgow - and at least they could blame the Nazis! That these tiny accommodations were ever built in the first place is a question worth asking, but that they w...

        July 27, 2025

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