Salvage with a Smile (1940)

Directed by

Adrian Brunel

Genre

propaganda film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

6 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.