Farewell Oak Street

1953
7.5| 0h17m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 15 June 1953 Released
Producted By: ONF | NFB
Country: Canada
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.nfb.ca/film/farewell_oak_street
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This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.

Genre

Documentary

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Director

Grant McLean

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

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Farewell Oak Street Audience Reviews

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
maydom04 Just watched this online.I have always been interested in Toronto and it's history. I had seen it once before, about 1970 in a high school "social studies" class.The main thing that struck me, apart from the obvious difference between the old and new Oak Street, is how societal standards and attitudes are always changing.Here we see the creation of Regent Park, a perfectly fine and functional place to live, much better than what existed before, and yet just 40 odd years later, it is dismantled, at great expense, in the name of a "better" design!New architecture and design cannot solve problems, people do.The community members, with the help of the Police , need to weed out the bad apples and punish them, so that law-abiding people don't have to live in fear, otherwise the same problems will persist, regardless of design.