FROM FAMILY TO THE FARM [Main Title]

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  • Title: FROM FAMILY TO THE FARM [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GOV 37
  • Other titles: FROM FAMILY TO FARM [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Wartime documentary, presumably produced for propaganda purposes, focusing on the necessity and benefits of turning food waste into feed for animals in wartime.
  • Description: Close up shot of radiogram. Family sat by roaring fire, mother knitting, and daughter sewing. The remains of the evening meal on the dining table are clearly visible in the foreground. Daughter clears the table, making sure to put all the food scraps into a large ceramic pot. In another household a different meal is prepared. The kettle is boiled and a pot of tea is made, sausages are prepared ready for grilling, savoy cabbage is chopped, and potatoes are peeled. Once ready, the meal is consumed and the table cleared. Exterior views of street in East Ham. A waste collector in a white jacket and peaked cap, cigarette in his mouth, makes his way along the street, pushing two waste urns on a trolley. One family's food waste has been hung from their front gate in a bag, and the waste collector empties the bag into one of the urns, which is clearly marked 'County Borough of East Ham'. A young girl brings more waste to the collector, and further waste is collected in pails from other houses in the street. Trucks carrying waste arrive at factory for processing (The name 'Grover and Company' is visible at the rear of a large factory building in the background). Truck reverses into entrance to large shed. Workmen lift the waste into an industrial mincer, using shovels and wheelbarrows to transport the waste from the truck to the mincer. Boiling and pulping the waste. Close up shots of the heavy equipment in action. Workmen in white overalls checking progress. Piles of different types of meal products on the floor of the factory, including meat and bone meal, blood meal, white fish meal, whale meal, and seaweed meal. These are all mixed together with milk powder, and the finished product is poured into bags, ready for transportation. Brief shot of merchant ship at sea, then of ship travelling up the River Thames, under Tower Bridge (which has been raised to allow the ship to pass). Various views of the RMS Ausonia anchored by the Thames. Various goods are unloaded from the Ausonia by crane, including cars and military supplies. Scenes in busy fish market (location unknown, but some boxes marked Hull, presumably indicating where the fish had been procured from, not the location of the market itself). Man walks past camera with a very large fish on his head. Scenes in laboratory. Scientists in white coats conducting tests. Scenes on farm in the countryside. Dray horse with cart. Farm workers load bags of feed onto the back of the cart. Shots of cows and chickens in the fields. Milking the cows with a milking machine. Feeding the calves. Pigs feeding at the trough and in the yard. Chicken houses in field and orchard. Woman (Land Girl of the Women's Land Army?) collecting eggs and shutting the farm gate behind her.
  • Alternative Title: FROM FAMILY TO FARM [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: GOV 37
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 1940
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: John Page Productions (Production company) Page, John (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Nitrate Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 875ft; Running time: 9 mins 43 secs
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    GOV 37

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