Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Trailer: Save Your Bacon

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

696A

Date Released

8 Oct 1942

Date submitted

5 Oct 1942

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Land Battleship
2. 2Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: US Offensive in South Pacific
3. 3Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Soviet Heroism
4. 4Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Trailer: Save Your Bacon

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Section Title

Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Save Your Bacon - Trailer. DESCRIPTION: Keep your scraps to feed the pigs. SHOTLIST: The story is of pigs being unable to get enough to eat, get very thin and cannot supply the country. You are then asked to save all your waste food & place in bins. Actually this is a trailer to save waste food, not bacon.

Local distribution only

Trailer

Keywords

Food and cooking; Animals; Public information

Footage sources

Ministry of Information

Card file number

42914

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

89

Story extras:

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