Somewhere Decent to Live
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Introduced by Lynsey Hanley, author of Estates: An Intimate History and writer for the Observer and New Statesman…
In the early to mid-twentieth century the advent of film and the documentary form, enabled the crumbling state of London’s East End housing stock to be recorded and highlighted as a ‘social problem’.
From groundbreaking British documentary Housing Problems (1935) to films promoting a move from the slums to new LCC housing estates in the 1960s these films are eye-opening documents of the city’s fabric and its inhabitants’ lives in transition.
Approx running time 120 min.
6 March 2010
Cinema 1
Tickets: Standard – £7.50 online (£9.50 full price) / Barbican Members – £6.50 online (£7.50 full price) / Concessions £7.50 / Under 15 £4.50
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