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Object description
Second World War British animated cartoon newsreel trailer encouraging the public save their waste paper for the war effort.
Full description
The film opens with a view of a landscape strewn with sheets of paper and a wooden sign 'Save Your Waste Paper'. One of the sheets of paper jumps up from the ground, whistles and beckons. A lorry screeches to a halt and is quickly filled with the sheets of paper and drives off to the 'Waste Paper and Pulping Mill". The papers from the lorry are fed in to a large snake which swallows them in to the pulping mill. The paper is broken down with mechanical hands holding scythes and picks and pummeled by mechanical boots. The pulp is rolled, pressed and cut in to useful packaging for the Navy, Army and RAF. On a conveyor belt, some of the boxes produced from the waste paper are filled with medical supplies, food and ammunition (one of the boxes has a smiling clown face drawn on it). The boxes are stacked in piles and one pile is encased in a parachute canister (also with a smiling clown face) and lifted airborne attached to a large dragon fly style insect aircraft. The insect airplane takes off to the sound of an aircraft engine and manoeuvres in flight to avoid anti-aircraft flack before successfully releasing its canister in to the outstretched hands of cheering soldiers on the battlefront. End title "SAVE MORE AND MORE WASTE PAPER PLEASE!"
Physical description
35mm
