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Geoffrey Campling was a keen 16mm film-maker, and in 1951 made 'Labour and The New Society', a silent black and white ten minute film, for Norwich Labour Party. The film, now held in the East Anglian Film Archive, was made before the local government elections in 1951 and shows the programmes of the Labour run Norwich City Council to rebuild Norwich after the war. The film introduces some of the leading Labour figures of the time, shows the interim measures taken to solve the housing problem and features an estate of pre-fabricated houses and some of the Council's new housing schemes. Two thousand Norwich homes were completely destroyed by the bombing campaigns in the Second World War, and thirty thousand were damaged, some beyond repair. After the war, the City Council launched an ambitious scheme to build two thousand new homes in five years. Though the 'prefabs' they built were designed as short term accommodation, the last one, wasn't dismantled until 1976. See also, 'Progress Report No.2' (1948) from the Scottish Screen Archive, which was made by the Glasgow Development Corporation, to promote its post-war housing development schemes. |
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