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Salvage with a Smile (1940)

Salvage with a Smile poster
Directed by
Adrian Brunel
Genre
propaganda film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
6 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short film encourages people to save and recycle household waste during the war. It shows a family learning how to sort their rubbish for reuse.

upbeatinstructionallightheartedpatrioticbriskpublic-spiritedwartimeinformative

What happens

Salvage with a Smile is a 1940 British short black-and-white public information film directed and written by Adrian Brunel and starring Aubrey Mallalieu, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Shiner and Phyllis Morris. It was produced by Ealing Studios and the Ministry of Supply for the Ministry of Information. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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