From the Family to the Farm; The Torch Triumphant
VHS Black & White Silent 1940 26:25
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Summary: Video featuring New City Road School. The label states that the video includes From the Family to the Farm (1929)
Compilation of the films 'From the Factory to the Farm' and 'The Torch Triumphant'.
Title number: 2650
LSA ID: LSA/3476
Description: From the Family to the Farm': A family listen to a radio in their sitting room, while sat in front of an open fire. The daughter of the family gets up and begins to clear the dining table. She scrapes all the food waste into a bowl. In other households - A woman places sausages on to a grill, a cabbage is sliced in half and placed in a pan, potatoes are peeled, and other food is sliced. On the street - a rubbish collector pushing a trolley collects bags, baskets and buckets of food waste from house gates and empties then into a steel bin on his trolley. Lorries arrive at the factory building of the Wolsey Works on Carpenters Road in Stratford and a man unloads piles of food waste from its rear into a wheelbarrow. Another man shovels piles of the waste from the barrow and into a large pipe, where an Archimedes screw carries it up and away. Elsewhere in the factory, boiling water is poured into a chamber and pumps and engines are seen in action transforming the waste. At the other end of the machinery, the processed material is seen being moved and bagged into compost. Six piles of powdered material are signposted to indicate their nature: 'Meat - Bone Meal', 'Blood Meal', 'Whale Meal', 'White Fish Meal', 'Milk Powder', and 'Seaweed Meal'. These ingredients are mixed as they are poured into a funnel supplying rectangular sacks. A fishing boat is seen at sea, and moving up the River Thames under Tower Bridge (which has its bridge up to allow a larger ship passage through). A large freight ship is shown unloading goods at the London docks (including a car being craned down from ship to shore). Dockers move crates and sacks. Elsewhere crates of fish from Hull are unloaded. Shots within a laboratory show men mixing liquids in glassware. Sacks of animal feed re seen being delivered to a dairy farm by a horse drawn cart. The film concludes with some general shots about the farm include mechanical milking, feeding time for young cows, pigs and hens. The second film is 'The Torch Triumphant': Autumn 1940 - a family leave their house and carry bedding to a garden bomb shelter. Air Raid wardens watch the skies and set an alert. Models of German aircraft and cutouts of a city skyline are used to illustrate a Luftwaffe bombing raid. Scenes of bomb damage to homes, factories, churches and schools. A schoolroom for infants - sand play, letter games, balls, camp beds, washing hands, brushing teeth. Older boys engage in debate inside a classroom. A gramophone record is played and children dance in a school playground. Scenes from a school performance of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Nights Dream'. Boys engage in intense bouts of boxing, with some rounds featuring a number of blindfolded participants! dancing. artworks drawn on boards over broken windows, callisthenics, boys making model aeroplanes out of wood and paper. Girls in a woodwork class. Cooking lessons, making pastry. Radio - schools programme listened to in assembly. Children practicing putting out fires and first aid (tying head and foot bandages, placing wounded on a stretcher). Children using stencils to create their own wartime propaganda posters: 'Keep These Shadows Off Our Meadows; By War Savings' (with silhouetted German bombers), 'Save for Hitler's Grave' (with a swastikaed tombstone), 'More Guns - Less Huns; Save for Victory' (with Ak Ak guns firing into the sky), 'Lend Your Money To Catch The Bunny' (featuring a rabbit with a Hitler fringe and moustache), 'Lend to Spend With a Friend' (featuring the Union flag and the Stars and Stripes flag over artillery, presumably about buying weapons from the Americans) and 'Victory If You Lend'. Schoolgirls knitting woollen hats and socks in a classroom 'for the forces'. Children packing up and leaving their desks when an air raid siren sounds and retreating to the school bomb shelter. Children walking home from school through bombed streets. The film ends with shots of a propaganda poster showing children huddled together and the slogan 'MOTHERS Send them out of London'.
Further information: Credits for 'The Torch Triumphant' are: Conception: L.G. Watson; Production: L.G. Watson. Credits for 'From the Family to the Farm' are: Production Company: John Page Productions; Director: John Page; Producer: John Page; Commentator: Morton King; Recordist: Harry Sheridan
Keywords: Refuse collection; Recycling; recycling facilities
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Newham; Stratford; West Ham
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