HER SAVINGS SAVED [Main Title]

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  • Title: HER SAVINGS SAVED [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 533
  • Other titles: FILM TAGS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: British fictional short piece encouraging people to buy War Savings Certificates, 1918.
  • Description: While a working class girl is shopping in a street market a pickpocket steals a receipt for a National Savings Certificate from her bag. A young man sees this, struggles with him and retrieves the receipt while the thief runs away. The girl offers it to him as a reward. He declines, but with a suggestion of romance confesses that the experience has inspired him to start this form of saving.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-05
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Hepworth Manufacturing Company (Production company) Edwards, Henry1882-09-181952-11-02 (Production individual) Edwards, Henry1882-09-181952-11-02 (Production cast) McAndrews, John (Production cast) White, Chrissie (Production cast)
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  • Keywords: propaganda, British - practical (object name) society, British - domestic (object name) society, British - romance (object name) 31/3(41) (event)
  • 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: 123 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Credits: taken from an article in 'Pictures and Picturegoer', August 17, 1918, page 189 Summary: an early example of the Ministry of Information 'film tag', a successful innovation of 1918. These were very short pieces of practical or inspirational propaganda intended to be run at the start of a normal film show
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