| OPERATION LARDER Food Minister Ben Smith speaks about food crisis. Also shots of famine victims in Bengal. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 50 |
| Catalog #: | 312347 | |
| Clip Number: | 312347-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 46/12 | |
| Timecode: | 10:18:36 - 10:22:57 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1946 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Famine FOOD: Rationing/Shortages WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Afterword (Epilogue) | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 188509 OPERATION LARDER Food Minister Ben Smith speaks about food crisis. Also shots of famine victims in Bengal. Spectacled man behind a desk (Sir Ben Smith) removes his glasses and speaks directly to the camera about the world food problem. Family of four gathered around breakfast table. Working-class. Mother brings plates with toast and egg to table. She sits down and pours tea. Father reads newspaper. Mother cuts bread by holding it against her chest and cutting toward her. VO pepperpot housewife complaining about food shortages, how it's even worse than during the war, etc. Women lined up (queued) for food. CUs of feet. Woman in butcher shop. Butcher wraps up meat. CU of ration book, butcher marking it. Woman looking in shop window. Canned goods with points numbers on it. Women in line again. CUs of empty shopping baskets. Aerial shot of huge wheat field with combine harvester going across it. Shots of harvester starting. Tractor pulling hay-baling machine, followed by threshing. Asian (Indian?) rice paddy, interesting simple irrigation method shown, scooping water with large hollowed out logs into paddy. Melodramatic tableau. Three third-world people raising their hands up to a shaft of light, begging the industrialized nations for food. Sequence of starving people. Mother and children walking. CUs of children and people in the streets, etc. Huge mass of starving people raising their buckets, plates, etc. toward just to the right of the camera, in supplication, crying out. Sir Smith, for a final rousing speech "To you the people I would say, don't waste food -- it is an anti-social act. Preserve everything you can, to waste is a crime." Farming, Grain, Agriculture, Rationing, Starvation, Famine. | |
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