EVERY LITTLE HELPS (first version) [Main Title]

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  • 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)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • 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
  • HD Media:Yes
  • 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
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 447A

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