looking for amateur 1969 film

[Astoness]

hi folks long shot i know but i wonder if anyone can help me locate this video please...thanks for any help given below is a bit of info about it

lyn

Three years later, in 1969, Save the Children sponsored an amateur film on slum clearance.

Fourteen minutes long and called Our Generation it was directed by John Beacham and Malcolm Dick. Both men wanted to get away from dramatic presentations and their film focused on streets where all the houses were due for demolition but had not yet been fully cleared.

In particular, Our Generation showed children in Ladywood playing amongst half-demolished houses and sometimes near burning debris and it suggested that the wholesale movement of folk into high-rises was causing other problems for children.

 

[Mark Tooze]

Hi Lyn - its not in the MACE archive, although I assume you had already checked this.

 

[mw0njm.]

here is one on ladywood

Watch Ladywood Redevelopment - BFI Player

The tattered wallpaper of part demolished housing contrasts with gleaming new tower blocks. Ladywood in Birmingham may be on the up but what about the forgotten people?

player.bfi.org.uk

 

[Stokkie]

hi folks long shot i know but i wonder if anyone can help me locate this video please...thanks for any help given below is a bit of info about it

lyn

Three years later, in 1969, Save the Children sponsored an amateur film on slum clearance.

Fourteen minutes long and called Our Generation it was directed by John Beacham and Malcolm Dick. Both men wanted to get away from dramatic presentations and their film focused on streets where all the houses were due for demolition but had not yet been fully cleared.

In particular, Our Generation showed children in Ladywood playing amongst half-demolished houses and sometimes near burning debris and it suggested that the wholesale movement of folk into high-rises was causing other problems for children.

Lyn,
Malcolm Dick's contact details are on the University of Birmingham web page. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/dick-malcolm.aspx
Derek

 

[mikejee]

Do not know if those are up to date, as he retired a few months ago

 

[Astoness]

here is one on ladywood

Watch Ladywood Redevelopment - BFI Player

The tattered wallpaper of part demolished housing contrasts with gleaming new tower blocks. Ladywood in Birmingham may be on the up but what about the forgotten people?

player.bfi.org.uk

thanks pete i have seen this one before... there was no doubt that the so called slum housing had to go and at that time everyone was happy to move into the high rises...they thought they were the best thing since sliced bread..of course it did not take long for them (especially those with young children) to realise that yes ok the flats were cleaner..hot and cold running water..inside lavvies and central heating but that it came with a premium...the loss of seeing and talking to neighbours every day...no gardens for the children to play in and inter act with other children..no sense of community...trapped in a block of flats with no one to talk to...as i spent 7 years in a high rise with 4 children under the age of 6 i feel qualified to say it was the worst time of my life and very sole destroying and at my lowest point i would happily have swapped the flat for a back to back with a small garden..had to fight like cat and dog to get out and that day was one of the best days of my life especially for the children

lyn

 

[Stokkie]

Do not know if those are up to date, as he retired a few months ago

As an alternative via History West Midlands https://historywm.com