Women and the War
Item
Title
Women and the War
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Identifier
5748.mp4
IWMFILM479-low.mp4
Creator
Ministry of Information
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Abstract
British propaganda film of the contribution of some women to the war effort, contrasted with the extravagance of others, 1918. The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that ""luxury shopping"" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two small children while her husband serves in the trenches, munitions workers, nurses at a hospital, drivers and mechanics of the WAAC in France, drivers of military ambulances, and women special constables in Britain. The film ends with the enquiry "CAN YOU HELP "
Date
1918
Date Created
1918-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1918-12-31
Spatial Coverage
Source
DVD copy of original film
Medium
DVD copy of original film
Type
Footage
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Publisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
producer
Topical Film Company
Subject
Battle
Home Front
Landscape
Propaganda
Somme
Women