Summary: An appeal to the public to grow vegetables.
Description: Initially setting the scene by film of a vegetable queue, the film shows various people at work in allotments (factory girls, Fire Service men, balloon and AA crews, old man and schoolchildren) and various possibly unusual sites for a vegetable garden (on top of an Anderson shelter, on a flat roof). Then follows a long sequence showing various activities in the vegetable garden's year - digging, sowing, hoeing, harvesting. The film words its appeal at several levels: allotment cultivation is fashionable, fun, good for you (both in exercise and produce) and good for the nation - "Food is just as important a weapon of war as guns".
Production Details: Ministry of Agriculture (Production sponsor)
Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Spectator (Production company)
Hankinson, Michael (Production individual)
Hankinson, Michael (Production individual)
Anstey, Edgar (Production individual)
Hay, Roy (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: agriculture, British - arable (object name)
propaganda, British - practical: Dig for Victory (object name)
society, British - precautionary: growing vegetables (object name)
society, British - sustenance: home-grown vegetables (object name)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 558 ft; Running time: 6 mins
