01 January 1940 Factual 6 mins
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.
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Kathleen Harrison as Housekeeper
Aubrey Mallalieu as Professor
Phyllis Morris as Miss Green
Ronald Shiner as Dustman
Adrian Brunel Director
Adrian Brunel Writer
Leslie Rowson Cinematography
Ernest Aldridge Editor
United Kingdom 01 January 1940
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The coming of the pioneer settlers in 1840, the making of their first homes in the wilderness, the gold rushes, the Maori wars, the stage coaches, and the frontier towns.
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Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself.
21 September 1940
Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal.
06 September 1940
Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party.
23 February 1940
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