Summary:Film draws analogies, not always apt, between efficient storage and use of food by British animals and the necessity for self-discipline and efficiency in food use in wartime.
Description:Shots include: squirrel, fox, butterflies, potato cells (growth under microscope), snail on cabbage, animals eating (caterpillars, rabbits, cattle, sheep), leaf cutter bee (long sequence from cutting of leaf to appearance of full grown grub), honey bee (long sequence, storing food), sand wasp (long sequence, preserving dead spider), shrike and its larder, sparrowhawk feeding young, badger eating bark, polecat eating from tin of salmon, field mice in nest.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:UKY 256
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1940-1940
Production Country:GB
Production Details:British Electrical Development Association (Production sponsor)
GB Instructional (Production company)
Field, Mary (Production individual)
Smith, F Percy (Production individual)
Pike, Oliver G (Production individual)
Durden, J V (Production individual)
Fogwell, Roy (Production individual)
Emmett, E V H (Production cast)
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Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details:16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 12 mins
