The War Effort in the Countryside, UK, 1940s - Film 1036362

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1036362 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Film about Country Town, a made up place to show city people what people in the country are doing for the war effort. WW2 Second World War. (Could be filmed in Lincolnshire 1940's Church bell rings. Cattle market. Government officials inspect the animals to set a price. Livestock sold at market. Animals send off to the slaughter house.Boats moored along a canal. Houses. Fishermen catch shellfish. Port. Loading timber and grain onto vessels. In the town, many horses pulling carts as well as motor cars. A ford, metalwork, furnace, hammering metal. Combine harvester working in the fields. New suburban houses. Electricity. Telephone box. Market day in the town. Women shop at the stall market. They buy food and clothing. City people evacuated to the town. Queues for food due to rationing. Women get letters from servicemen overseas. Guild Hall now a restaurant, a meal for a shilling. Cannery. Women working in the factory canning food. Seeds and other crops. Sacks of seeds. Women load sacks onto a train. City people brought in by Ministry of Agriculture to help bring in the harvest. The Odeon cinema. Pub or inn. Roller skating rink. Bowling club. Home guard. Wartime dancing. Girls flock around RAF man.(Note says features trains Boston Lincolnshire NE 7384, LS 4649 Steam traction engine.) Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced