Master bakers attend protest meeting about bread rationing and baker's boy...
Food Minister John Strachey explains the need for bread rationing.
A short trailer film asking Scottish children to volunteer to get in the potato...
Models wear latest designs in women's tweed coats which are to be sold at utility...
Close ups of clothing coupon ration book.
Food shortage and rations in Berlin.
An Essex garage sells a new product to mix with petrol...
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Return of the petrol ration for private motorists.
A woman makes stockings out of old hat netting.
Demonstration against food shortage in Rome.
Cuts from newsreel 46/53 - Food Minister Strachey explains...
People of Athens receive food rations from Britain and America.
Despite end of Japanese occupation life is still hard in Singapore...
Prime Minister Clement...
John Strachey takes over from...
Piccadilly's illuminated signs are turned off due to a fuel crisis.
The Indian Government introduce rice and wheat rationing to smooth out food...
A clever way to preserve stockings by putting them in oven-warmed jars.
Actress Wilma...
A woman tries out pair of (not very glamorous)...
Peter West compresses food extracts to make concentrated rations for...
Housewives shopping at London's first supermarket.
Footage of a lesson to educate budding butchers in Smithfield, Cumbria.
Latest budget fashions for women.
President of the Board of Trade, Harold Wilson announces the scrapping of clothes...
Aborigines catch turtles and snakes in Darwin, Australia.
Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell defends withdrawal of basic petrol...
Cheap meat sold at temporary stalls on streets of Paris to force butchers...
The effects of the...
Crowds at Covent Garden market.
Master Bakers meeting - bakers discussing bread rationing.
Good shots of ATS girls preparing food for soldiers at lonely army guard...
Trailer urging people to re-style their...
Government trailer showing the groups of people that are guaranteed a daily ration of...
People show how they can economise in wartime life - especially over...
Ordinary people live in a background of war in Palestine.
Interview with Housewives representative on Government...
The Reds lift Berlin barriers, and the East Berliners come to the West...
Petrol crisis in Cyprus - Britain is not the only one to suffer.
Item showing how batteries work and how to make your own.
Wooden soled shoes being made in Somerset.
A Doctor and a milkman discuss...
Furrier Mr. Grubert shows off latest in utility furs to customer at London showroom.
Glamorous ladies' shoes at an affordable price - could this be an end to...
Footage of church in East Grinstead now used as a shop, West Sussex.
Two women model home-made versions of the latest 'dog collars' and chokers.
Women exchange clothes in swap shop in Birmingham.
The latest in teenage party frocks, modelled in the Pathe...
People in...
British newspaper headlines announce introduction of smaller loaf of...