| Trailer: DIGGING FOR VICTORY Quirky comedy sketch by Ministry of Information about growing winter vegetable crops. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5701 |
| Catalog #: | 200723 | |
| Clip Number: | 200723-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 43/11 | |
| Timecode: | 01:49:54 - 01:51:23 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1943 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMERCIALS: Public Service FARMING: Vegetables HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Vegetable HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Victory Garden LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 511572 Trailer: DIGGING FOR VICTORY Quirky comedy sketch by Ministry of Information about growing winter vegetable crops. Man is played by comedian Ted Ray. VS Ted Ray busy at small plot of garden set up in studio. He plants seeds. A Father Time character enters and makes the seeds grow. Gardener eats summer produce, is served by Father Time, who offers to order his winter course. He tells Ted Ray to prepare for winter he takes no heed. He refuses, and when winter comes there's nothing to eat. VS Ted Ray now without food in the thick snow. CU poster "No Winter Greens To-Day. Signed, Father Time." VS Father Time comes back with 'I told you so' and tells people to prepare for winter and 'Dig for victory'. | |
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