GIVE 'EM BEANS [Main Title]

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  • Title: GIVE 'EM BEANS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 549-2
  • Other titles: FILM TAGS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Short piece encouraging people in Britain to eat beans, with Canadian lumberjacks as an example of people who do, May 1918.
  • Description: Canadian lumberjacks at work stop for their main meal of beans. In stop-action, a packet of beans and some pork fat are shown as their main food. "Beans are an energiser", the lumberjacks continue work at high speed (camera deliberately undercranked).
  • Alternative Title: FILM TAGS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 549-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-05
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: propaganda, British - practical (object name) agriculture, Canadian - forestry (object name) 31/3(41) (event) Canada (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: 102 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 549-2

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