Farewell Oak Street

Year Published: 1953

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Presents Oak Street, one of the slum areas in Toronto, before a slum clearance and public housing project transform it into regent park. Shows the devastating psychological effects of slum living and gives impressive evidence of the desirability of slum clearance and public housing programs.

Complete Record: A dramatised story of what a low-rental housing project can mean to the people who once shared aged, sub-standard dwellings. A before-and-after picture about people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto, who, because of the housing shortage, had been forced to live in squalid, dingy flats, all-purpose rooms, and ramshackle houses on a crowded street in Regent Park North. These people were freed through housing development to inhabit new, modern dwellings planned to give a measure of privacy, light and air.

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fK3faMCxo

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image, National Film Board of Canada

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