ENROL FOR NATIONAL SERVICE AND BACK UP THE BOYS IN THE TRENCHES [Main Title]

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  • Title: ENROL FOR NATIONAL SERVICE AND BACK UP THE BOYS IN THE TRENCHES [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 524
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  • Summary: British documentary encouraging people to join voluntary Home Front labour organisations, 1918.
  • Description: Men prepare the ground for sowing spring corn, plant the seeds in rows, water them using hoses, and plough with horse-drawn ploughs. The film quotes Lloyd George on the need for more volunteers. A mechanical reaper at work. Men pitch hay onto wagons to take to the hayloft. A steam-driven threshing machine pours corn into sacks. A "farm labourer and his lass" walk and talk together romantically. The film emphasises the financial and health advantages of farm labour. Skilled mechanics are also needed to run farm machinery. A steam tractor pulls first a plough then a rake. A mechanical thresher at work. The steam tractor pulls wagons, then carries hurdles for a pen into which sheep are collected.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 524)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: propaganda, British - practical: recruitment (volunteer labour) (object name) agriculture, British - arable (object name) transport, British civilian - agricultural (object name) recruitment, British civilian: volunteer labour (object name) society, British - romance (object name) agriculture, British - animal (object name) animals, mammals: sheep (object name) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 521 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: it is not clear whether this is a complete film or a fragment. In the latter case the title, as given here, may represent a caption and not be correct as an issue title Summary: the First World War use of the term 'National Service' to mean, exclusively, voluntary non-military service on the Home Front, should be noted Technical: film is held on a single reel with IWM 523 Remarks: the film uses a mixture of promises, threats of starvation or defeat, and moral blackmail to expound its message
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