Metadata
- Title: EVERY LITTLE HELPS (first version) [Main Title]
- Film Number: IWM 447A
- Other titles:
- Summary: British propaganda film on food saving and producing activities in Ilford, Essex, 1918.
- Description: A schoolmaster drives a tram as a part-time job. Other men board lorries taking them to work part-time on farms on Sundays. They are "of all classes, from lawyers to navvies". People without local allotments travel by special trains to distant allotment patches. A man ploughs with a two-horse hand plough. Schoolboys dig on the land. Boys collect waste for pigfood from house to house. "It is the 'little bit more' that counts. What are YOU doing ?"
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1914-1918
- Production Date: 1918
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
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- Keywords: propaganda, British - practical (object name) industry, British - craft (object name) agriculture, British - arable (object name) agriculture, British - animal (object name) animals, mammals: pig (object name) 31/3(41) (event) Ilford, Essex, England, UK (geography) Children (concept) Class (concept)
- 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: 608 ft; Running time: 10 mins
- Notes: Summary: see the B version which conveys the same message under the same title, but is virtually a completely different film, and the X version, 341 feet long, which is similar to the A version but opens with a scene of farm pigs being fed from a trough. The X version was formerly IWM 547
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