Geography Reference
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6.3. Liverpool city center map showing locations in promotional films.
mercial opportunities on offer define the topographic specificity of this
film genre. Functioning largely as marketing devices to raise industrial,
commercial, and touristic awareness of Liverpool, the majority of the
promotional films are productions commissioned by the Liverpool City
Council and Merseyside Development Corporation.
Turning to films categorized as documentaries (professional and
independently produced nonfiction films), we get a different picture
again (figure 6.4). W hat is immediately apparent in comparison to the
previous two genres is the sheer number and variety of the locations. Not
only are more areas of the city mapped in Liverpool documentaries, but
there is also a greater emphasis on districts defined in terms of housing
and residential usage, with streets rather than just buildings finding their
way onto the map. But in addition to many of the more prominent and
established locations that appear in the newsreels and promotional films,
there is far more extensive coverage of the local and everyday (schools,
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