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Street Scenes I: My street, your street
Children’s TV show encouraging London children to look at the life in the streets around them.
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Overview
A wonderful ILEA film for primary schools following a small girl Kim. It encourages viewers to look at the streets around them and note different shapes – of windows, pub signs and gables – as well as things as diverse as shopfronts, coal holes, weathervanes, bollards and chimneys. Also explores touch, smell and sound, with a competition asking children to identify street sounds and smells. No locations specified, but possibly includes scenes from Wandsworth and Stepney.
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