| Trailer: EARLY DIGGING encouraging people to dig their gardens over the winter. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5702 | |
| Catalog #: | 320142 | |
| Clip Number: | 320142-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 43/86 | |
| Timecode: | 01:21:12 - 01:22:34 | |
| Location: | UK | |
| Year Shot: | 1943 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMERCIALS: Public Service HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Victory Garden LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | Trailer: EARLY DIGGING encouraging people to dig their gardens over the winter. Cartoon showing a character who is supposed to be Jack Frost. It shows how he can break up the earth easily if it is dug over before winter. Cartoon showing garden in winter, wind blowing, snow falling, snowflakes falling, cartoon of Jack Frost breaking up the earth. Jack Frost appears a leaps about the garden - as the soil as already been dug Jack Frost can get into it to break it up further, narrator explains this will help vegetables grow. Jack Frost then comes across a garden that has not been dug over, he cannot get into the soil. He comes to an undug section and hurts his nose trying to break it up. Jack Frost writes a message on a spade, this becomes the end title: "Dig early and let me finish the job, signed Jack Frost". | |
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