Every Little Helps
| Title |
Every Little Helps
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|---|---|
| Author |
Ministry of Information
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| Notes |
British propaganda film on food saving and producing activities in Ilford, Essex, 1918. The film stresses the need for part-time work to win the war. A schoolmaster drives a tram. Ladies make bandages, limb supports and other hospital items. Carpenters make crutches. Elderly part-time workers chop wood in a timber yard. Women collect rhubarb for jam. Schoolchildren collect blackberries which are then taken to a factory. Boys in their mid-teens, wearing school uniform, plant cabbages. Boys of the Naval Brigade collect waste food from door to door as pigfood. Food collected by other boys is loaded into sacks for farmers and given to pigs. Lawyers, businessmen, tradesmen and labourers work to clear a waterlogged ditch on a farm on a Saturday afternoon. The film ends with a message, 'You can help. Seek out your local Part-Time Committee and find a job. If you have no such committee, start one. The Ministry of National Service will help you'
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| Item date |
1918
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| Creation place |
Ilford, England
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
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| Filename |
IWMFILM447B-low.mp4
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| Copyright |
The Imperial War Museum Film Archive
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| Digital repository | |
| Collection ID |
IWM 447b
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| Repository name |
Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
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| Repository address line1 |
Imperial War Museum
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| Repository address line2 |
Lambeth Road
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| Repository address line3 |
London
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| Repository address Zip code |
SE1 6HZ
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| Repository address country |
UK
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| Repository address URL | |
| Publication editor |
Unknown
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| Producer |
Unknown
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| Cameramen |
Unknown
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Collection
Citation
“Every Little Helps,” by Ministry of Information. The Imperial War Museum Film Archive via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5519.
Permitted Use
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