| Trailer: SAVE TOOTHPASTE TUBES Tin Conservation | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5701 |
| Catalog #: | 319752 | |
| Clip Number: | 319752-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 42/69 | |
| Timecode: | 01:17:55 - 01:19:36 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1942 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMERCIALS: Public Service INDUSTRY: Waste Management, Recycling LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Propaganda WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | Trailer: SAVE TOOTHPASTE TUBES (aka COLLECTING TINS) Tin Conservation. Encourage recycling of toothpaste tubes. There follows a plea to conserve metal tubes from ointments and prescriptions. Zoom in on a drawing in the middle of a newspaper with caption: "Death and Ruin Sphere." The drawing shows a gate with the Japanese flag in the centre. Two thuggish Japanese soldiers stand guard outside. The doors slowly open. Fade into drawing of a huge black spider with the head of a Japanese soldier. The head is burnt away by flames and a grotesque skull with Japanese features is poked through the hole in the paper, opening and shutting its jaws. A skull with slanted eyes and buck teeth emerges from the burning page and says "Most honorable tin mines now in Japanese hands. Very nice." M/S of hundreds of silver tubes being piled up. M/S of people walking about a busy street. There is a used toothpaste tube attached to the camera lens. The used tube is superimposed over a drawing of scrap metal in a salvage bin. The tube slowly disintegrates and melts away (this to illustrate how soft metal tubes cannot be salvaged like ordinary metals because it evaporates under intense heat). In a chemists' we see a used toothpaste tube being returned as a man buys a new tube. Several more tubes are thrown into the box on the counter. Again we see the evil Japanese spider, now with a round, bulbous head and glasses - probably meant to be General Hideki Tojo. An egg painted in that same caricature style represents a Japanese spider with a spreading web, and as the narrator says, "Take back and hit back," a fist smashes it, with messy results. A hand comes down and smashes the head. Lots of gunk oozes out. | |
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