COI 155
An American commentator looks at the effects of rationing on the people of England in 1944.
The film presents a 'typical' family of 4 (housewife, engine-driver husband, factory-working daughter, schoolboy son) to illustrate the basic rationing system, the workings of 'point' systems and other restrictions, and the difficulties the average family faced when eating 'on the ration'.
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COI 155
An American commentator looks at the effects of rationing on the people of England in 1944.
The film presents a ‘typical’ family of 4 (housewife, engine-driver husband, factory-working daughter, schoolboy son) to illustrate the basic rationing system, the workings of ‘point’ systems and other restrictions, and the difficulties the average family faced when eating ‘on the ration’.
Explore IWM’s film collection: https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk
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ratioing or not British food sucks!
These days could return if Covid 19 continues and a Brexit deal is elusive.
Looks like a better place to live back then then now even
Why is everything in cents, its england rations.
MY MOM TOLD ME THAT NEWS OF FOOD ARRIVING IN THE SHOPS (ANY FOOD) SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE. THEY WOULD DROP WHATEVER THEY WERE DOING AND DASH THERE. THERE WAS NO GARANTEE OF FOOD AVAILABLE, BY THE TIME YOU REACHED THE COUNTER EITHER. HOW DISHEARTENING IS THAT. SHE SAID SHE'D JOIN ANY QUEUE WHILE PASSING, IN CASE SHE WAS SUCCESSFULL. ON TOP OF ALL THE OTHER ANXIETIES, WHAT A GENERATION.
We should have done rations instead of panic buying during COVID. They did it well and fairly unlike all of us recently getting into brawls over toilet paper. It’s shown us all how selfish we are.
This perfectly explains why my grandma saved everything. During the war, they had to ration. Idk how the rationing was in Hawaii at the time. Perhaps there were a lot of shortages. I wouldn't know. My grandma never spoke about the war. If she did, it was very rare of her to do so.
When the Conservatives abolished rationing in 1951, my grandmother never voted Labour again because they insisted rationing had to stay. DESPITE the creation of the NHS.
5:20 Is she referring to her husband?
Rationing lasted in England till 1954 and it was WORSE in many ways than during actual wartime!
I was born in 1941. Never saw a banana till I was 11
buy no bras or panties to save money
Keep in mind that this was the Britain in which George Orwell wrote "1984." That, and rationing didn't end with the war.
What actually made the whole British WWII rationing system up close and personal for me (an American) was watching "Dad's Army" and Ruth Goodman's "Wartime Farm" series.
An example of true national effort. There's a Pathé video that shows that despite six years of rationing and bombing and fighting, on VE Day these same long-suffering Britons massed in front of Buckingham Palace, sang God Save The King, and shouted "We want the King!" Never fails to produce a tear in my eye. God bless and preserve their memory!
After plundering india for years they came to this. Britain was grossly mismanaged
I can makeout even during WWI British life standards were not bad.
May be they squeezed India well then.
Why didn't they just go Vegan?
At the same time Americans were being shown how to diet .
What's very scary is that the USA is now rationing food and essentials because of this COVID-19 virus. A very different war, but the same principles are applying. The only thing is we haven't gone to a point system or savings stamps.
A pound of meat a week isn't enough.
Guess this was made for the US viewer since quoting prices in Dollars and Cents means nothing to me. (UK)
Very few overweight people in those days.
The national loaf. I've heard that was disgusting and even the name of it put terror into the hearts of people living back then lol.
People look and learn.this is going to be us .it won't be long.it won't be long.let the ,LORD have mercy on it
You guys had bitter? We can't afford butter here in South Africa
My Grandmother lived through both wars.
Now i know why her cupboards were full of Fray Bentos tinned steak & kidney pies, corned beef, spam and Princes tinned Salmon. All of that stuff could survive a nuclear holocaust and still be good to go with a bit of HP brown sauce.
Jimmy's mother and father are from two different social classes.
Its good to show the kids of today what people went thtough from 1939-1953 with the rationing. My only dislike with all the films is the y only seem to show the upper middle class shopping, never the people in the east end of London where most of the poorer people lived and died and most bombing happened.
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