Tim Marches Back (1944)

Title reads: “M of I Government Official“. Ministry of Information cartoon trailer asking people to keep telephone lines clear for essential war work - TIM marches back. Animated sequence: telegraph wires running through countryside, the pole is represented as a woman. We hear sound of flighty girl gossiping to a friend on the phone, images from their conversation appear on the wires: a glamorous couple dancing. A workman is seen trying to climb inside a giant telephone handset but he can not get in because the flighty girl is already there - this represents telephone line being engaged. Farmer driving a tractor - the workman is trying to get a message to the farmer to tell him his new tractor is ready. Sequence showing how telephones are used on the front line and the home front: soldier in trench using field telephone, telegraph wires leading to airfield, supply depot, munitions factory. Dove holding card with end title on: “Telephone Less“. NB: item originally part of Gazette iss