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New Towns for Old

New Towns for Old

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1942

Runtime

0h 6m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

New Towns for Old

Production Companies

Strand Film Company, Ministry of Information, BFI

Director

John Eldridge

Description

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.