A Few Ounces a Day
salvage
This film uses diagrams to illustrate the importance of salvaging common everyday items in an effort to reuse important raw materials for building ships. The film asserts that one day's salvage by the whole British people counteracts the loss of one ship. An emphasis is put on “The importance of salvage to the flow of goods; [and] various examples of useful materials commonly thrown away.” (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 10.)
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IU Libraries Moving Image Archive
Isotype Institute: designs
Ernst Meyer: sound
Henry Hallatt: commentary
Science Films: animation
The Children See it Thru
<span><em>The Children See it Thru</em> was a British production made as a fundraising appeal to American audiences to help clothe and educate English children affected by the Blitz. The film depicts the hardships of life during wartime for children including having to sleep in bomb shelters, use gas masks, and navigate bombed-out buildings. These are countered with images of the goal of the Save the Children foundation: British children frollicking in the countryside from away from the horrors of war.</span>
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Arthur Mann: commentary
Save the Children Federation: sponsor
World of Plenty
This 1943 film by documentarian Paul Rotha uses found footage and animated diagrams to discuss the production, distribution, and consumption of food; the prewar problems of overproduction and the anomaly of glutted markets and hungry people; the control exercised over production and distribution during World War II; and to offer a picture of what might be done in the postwar period.
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Eric Knight: writer
Isotype Institute: diagrams
William Alwyn: music
Miles Malleson: additional dialogue