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The Promised Land?: Who Cares (1971)
 

Material to accompany the BFI Mediatheque 'The Promised Land?' DVD

Main image of The Promised Land?: Who Cares (1971)
 
16mm, black & white, 17 min
 
DirectorNicholas Broomfield
Production CompanyNicholas Broomfield
 BFI Production Board
ScriptNicholas Broomfield
PhotographyNicholas Broomfield
EditorNicholas Broomfield
 
Focus Questions
In the Classroom

Early Nick Broomfield documentary about the clearing of Liverpool's slums and rehousing schemes, using inhabitants' voices.

Who Cares uses the voices of Liverpudlians being re-housed from inner city terraces to suburban high-rise estate to explore the sense of social dislocation that the new housing estates produced.

Whereas Housing Problems (1935) identified urban terraces with dirt, poverty and unhappiness, Broomfield's Liverpudlians mourn the loss of community and closeness the terraces brought, and find themselves unhappy and isolated in their brand new homes.

 
Video Clips
1. Life in the terraces (2:05)
2. The ruins of the terraces (2:19)
3. Life on the new estates (2:29)
Complete Film (16:53)
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