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6.4.
Liverpool city center map showing locations in documentary films.
pubs, clubs, sports venues, local churches, cafés, and restaurants), with
a notable shift toward residential areas, particularly the inner-city tene-
ment housing blocks built to replace the overcrowded eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century courts that became a prominent feature of Liver-
pool's urban landscape from the 1930s (these include Fontenoy Gardens,
Gerard Gardens, Vauxhall Gardens, and St. Andrews Gardens, or the
“Bullring,” as it is more commonly known).
The local and everyday is also well represented in the map of amateur
film locations, although this is more apparent the farther one travels out
from the city center. A focus on amateur factual production in the Mer-
seyside region from the 1920s displays a patern that parallels the devel-
opment of Liverpool's suburban hinterland and the gradual movement of
the city's more affluent population from the central areas to the greener
environs across the Mersey. From the earliest depictions of the city (e.g.,
the Lumière Brothers'
Panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique,
1897, or
