Homes for All

Series

Series Name

This Modern Age

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

Sep 1946

Length of issue (in feet)

1802

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Homes for All

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

NoS synopsis: BRITAIN’S HOUSING PROBLEMS, AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT’S HOUSING PROGRAMME explained. Stresses the present plight of Britain’s homeless, traces the causes, and points the way to solution. The position after World War I is compared with the position in 1946, and Aneurin Bevan is shown with his housing cabinet planning the shape of things to come. The phrase "Where there’s smoke there’s money" is repeatedly uttered as the growth of industry throughout the country is seen. But there is also a warning against "the age of anyhow"; ‘the age of jeryy-building without plan which so often has spoilt the areas thriving on industry’s expansion’.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Domestic life; Town and country planning

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Monthly Film Bulletin   Vol.13 No.153 September 1946, p132.
Enticknap, Leo. The Non-Fiction Film in Britain, 1945-1951 unpublished PhD thesis   p252.

Credits:

Support services

George Ivan Smith

Producer

James Lansdale Hodson

Support services

John Monck

Director

John Monck

Commentator

Robert Harris

Producer

Sergei Nolbandov

Production Co.

This Modern Age, Ltd.

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