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Morning in the Streets

Denis Mitchell's 1959 documentary is full of evocative images of a Liverpool still recovering from the post-war gloom.

This Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ film won the award for the best television documentary film in the Italia Prize Contest, 1959.

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35 minutes

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Wed 27 Jul 2011 00:55
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Did You Know?

The film features a shot of graffiti that reads 'Save the Rosenbergs', a reference to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who in 1953 were tried and executed in the United States for espionage on the flimsiest of evidence.

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Credits

Director Denis Mitchell
Director Roy Harris
Title Music Thomas Henderson

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