• Short Summary

    Great story takes us to the east end where Gert and Daisy encourage saving for the war effort.

  • Description

    Titles read: "GERT & DAISY ON WAR SAVINGS".

    London.

    The popular team of Gert and Daisy (radio entertainers Elsie and Doris Waters) visit a housing estate in East London. They stand surrounded by locals as they joke and explain how to form a local Savings Group - "money for jam!".

    They encourage people to join the groups and "lend" their money to the army, navy and RAF. They end with a little song about their cause - "save up all your money and old Hitler we will whack, and save your love and kisses 'til the boys come marching back.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1330.29
    Media URN:
    43938
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    22/06/1942
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:45:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:53:11:00 / 01:54:56:00
    Canister:
    42/50

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