World Food Shortage (1940-1949)

Location Unknown / Unclear. Britain’s Minister of Food, seated at table, talking about the post-war world food shortage - natural sound. He urges population to save food and talks about efforts to produce more food. Various shots of food shops’ windows with housewives looking in - not much in windows. Various shots of the fields, men harvesting, working on farms, sheep, cattle, etc. Man and a boy working on field, man on combine harvester, boy helping. They look at plane overhead - possibly spraying crops. Several shots of pilot in cabin. More shots of the man and the boy working. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bullet
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