MORNING IN THE STREETS (1959)
The people of Liverpool tell stories of their past and present. Denis Mitchell's companion piece to 'Night in the City' follows various conversations during a morning in Liverpool. As children play on bomb sites and in playgrounds, the elderly reminisce about their own childhoods. It's a city still recovering from the Blitz over a decade before, not yet the home of football and music that it would become. Denis Mitchell's 1959 documentary is full of evocative images of a Liverpool still recovering from the post-war gloom. This BBC film won the award for the best television documentary film in the Italia Prize Contest.
Director: Denis Mitchell
Duration: 35 minutes
Suggested credit: Morning in the Streets (1959) © BBC Archive