Tells the story of two places, the Isle of Dogs region of London and the recently-built town of Stevenage 30 miles away, the old and the new. Shows Britain trying to come to terms with a world far different from that which it knew before World War II.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
008586
Language
English
Subject categories
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → City planning
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Great Britain - Social conditions
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)