MINISTRY OF FOOD FLASHES
Recommendations from the Ministry of Food during the war about using powdered milk and eating potatoes rather than bread. (clip)
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Title: MINISTRY OF FOOD FLASHES
Reference number: 0867
Date: 1939 - 1945c
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 1.25 mins
Description: Government sponsored promotion on how to save flour by susbtituting potatoes and an advert for powdered milk.
Shotlist: No credits. soundtrack only: "Land of Hope and Glory" (0.30); "Food flash" giving instructions on reconstituting powdered milk (0.46); Four-part potato plan; c/u pamphlet: "Your bread costs ships" (1.05); v/o instructs: "Save Flour" over sea battle footage: "[a] raider took these pictures and sank these ships, some carrying wheat" (1.25)