Slum Clearance In Johannesburg (1937)

Title reads: “Slum clearance in Johannesburg“. Johannesburg, South Africa. Various shots of Prospect Town - a poverty stricken shanty town inhabited by black population. We see a group of men moving a piano and people packing up their belongings. The inhabitants and their belongings are loaded onto trucks and taken to new estate outside the city. Various shots of, mainly white, workers demolishing the township. Bull dozers and tractors on caterpillar wheels flatten the shacks to piles of rubble. A railway goods yard will be built on the site. FILM ID:939.3 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Par