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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1976-1979

1977-0207

Film

Thought for Food

1 of 1

1943

National Film Board

director, Stanley Jackson; producer, James Beveridge; photography, C.J. Quick; music, Lucio Agostini

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A documentary on food shortages in World War II Canada and the action planned in consequence. Why was Canada experiencing a food shortage, what dietary compensations were made to avoid apparent conditions of malnutrition and poverty, and what did the British and Canadian Food Plans consist of? These questions are answered in this documentary. Noteworthy pictorials: shots of Byward Market in Ottawa; of a restaurant interior during meal time; Kenyan tribesmen are shown in their villages and boats; shots of laboratory experimentation with rats; Canadian soldiers eat their meal in the army mess hall - the army diet is examined an undernourished child stares at the camera from his bed; a sea of soldiers do their calesthenics; Sir John Orr makes a speech about the British Food Plan; school children and workers eat in cafeterias; food rationing is announced in a butcher shop; crowds of factory workers race out of a plant at quitting time.

English

Open

V1 8501-0085

GAD 0FD579

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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