THE SECRET [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE SECRET [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 549-1
  • Other titles: FILM TAGS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Fictional piece showing how to use grated potato as a substitute for suet in cooking in Britain, 1918.
  • Description: A working class man expresses dissatisfaction about dinner, protesting to his wife that their neighbour still makes suet puddings and dumplings. Sneaking a look through the neighbour's window on the following morning, his wife sees that her neighbour uses grated potato mixed with flour as a substitute, to compensate for the wartime shortage. That evening she presents her husband with a pudding.
  • Alternative Title: FILM TAGS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 549-1
  • 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) Edwards, Henry1882-09-181952-11-02 (Production cast) White, Chrissie (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: propaganda, British - practical (object name) society, British - sustenance (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 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: 149 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 549-1

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