Rent Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front (1944)
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2h 31min
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Continuing the BFI's exploration of Britain on Film, this fascinating collection brings together a selection of public information films, propaganda shorts and adverts from the Second World War, drawn from the BFI National Archive, all of which give essential advice to a nation living in an age of austerity. Amongst the handy hints and tips, we learn how to support the war effort from home by rationing, staying healthy, growing vegetables, cooking and salvaging. Also includes an illustrated booklet with essays, film notes and full film credits.
Cookery Tips
- Cookery Hints: Oatmeal Porridge
- When the Pie was Opened
- Mrs. T and her Cabbage Patch- Two Cooks and a Cabbage
- Tea Making Tips
- Food Flash: Milk, Fish and Potatoes
Save Your Shillings and Smile
- Did You Ever See a Dream Talking
- Keep Them Safe Keep Them Happy
- Bob-in the Pound
- Save Your Shillings and Smile
- Get Cracking
- Food Flash: Bread and Dough
Make Do and Mend
- Salvage with a Smile
- Wisdom of the Wild
- Sabotage!
- Mrs Mopp Entertains
- Wicked Witch
- Dustbin Parade
- Little Annie's Rag Book
- Little Miss Muddlehead
- Food Flash: Ration Books
Fighting Fit
- Fitness Wins: 4 and 20 Fit Girls
- A-Tish-oo!
- ABCD of Health
- Round Figures
- Food Flash: Eggs, Cocoa and Cod Liver Oil
Dig for Victory
- The Backyard Front
- Bampton Shows The Way
- Food Flash: Canteens and Rats- Actors:
- Mrs. Inglestone, Maxwell Munden, Valerie Forrest, Hilda Masters, William Ashley, Claude Hulbert, Enid Trevor, Tommy Trinder, George Formby, Dinah Sheridan, Edward Rigby, Frank Pettingell, Ronald Shiner, Wally Patch, Frank Atkinson, Harry Fowler, Vera Frances, Irene Handl, Mike Johnson, Pauline Winter
- Directors:
- Alex Bryce, Jay Gardner Lewis, Len Lye, Mary Field, Basil Dearden, Harry Watt, Marcel Varnel, Adrian Brunel, Peter Pickering, Joy Batchelor, John Halas, L. Bradshaw, Maxwell Munden, Jack Ellitt, Andrew Buchanan, Bladon Peake
- Producers:
- John Taylor, Michael Balcon, Ben Henry, Marcel Varnel, Jay Lewis
- Voiced By:
- E.V.H. Emmett, Bernard Miles
- Narrated By:
- Maxwell Munden, William Ashley, E.V.H. Emmett, Bernard Miles
- Writers:
- Maxwell Munden, John L. Arthur, Edward Dryhurst, L. du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan, Adrian Brunel, Joy Batchelor, John Halas, E.V.H. Emmett, Andrew Buchanan
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Anime & Animation, Children & Family, Classics, Comedy, Documentary, Music & Musicals, Special Interest
- Collections:
- British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Drama Films & TV, Pig Power: Animal Farm At 70, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Basil Dearden, The Instant Expert's Guide to Frank Capra, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top 10 British War Films (1939-45), Top Films
