Twenty-Four Square Miles

Synopsis

Made in rural Oxfordshire in the 1940s the film followed from intensive research into the socio-economic circumstances of a single 24-square-mile area. The original research was incorporated in C S Orwin’s classic book ‘Country Planning’ and it is upon this that the film is based. It provides an unrivalled impression of the British countryside in its last great period of change before the 1980s and has many lessons for today.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 40 min.

Year of production

194

Availability

Sale

Uses

Students of town and country planning; local history.

Subjects

History; Sociology

Keywords

Oxfordshire; rural communities; rural development; town & regional planning

Credits

Contributor

John Arlott

Distributor

Name

Corner Cottage

Phone

01747 840750

Address

Brickyard Lane
GILLINGHAM
Dorset
SP8 5PJ

Notes

Contact: Trevor Bailey (7/99)