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Eating Out With Tommy Trinder (1941)
 

Courtesy of Imperial War Museum

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35mm, black and white, 6 mins
 
DirectorDesmond Dickinson
Production CompanyStrand Film Company
ScriptReg Groves
PhotographyGeorge Noble
 
From the Imperial War Museum Loan Collection

Cast: Tommy Trinder, Edward Chapman, Jean Colin, Marjorie Fielding

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Tommy Trinder extols the virtues of British Restaurants, and urges the public to organise one in their area.

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Frequently, popular show business personalities were used to present a propaganda message. The film and comedy star Tommy Trinder presents this light-hearted attempt to promote British Restaurants, part of the government's communal eating policy.

The use of Trinder and other actors in Eating Out also facilitated one of the film's messages that using a British Restaurant carried no social stigma, as they were frequented by stars and people from all classes. Not only are these restaurants democratic but, as Trinder demonstrates, an appropriate place to take your fiancée and her family.

Students of architecture and design may be interested in the mural designs on the walls of the restaurant in this film. These were a common feature in British Restaurants and were executed by contemporary artists of the calibre of Edward Bawden and Eric Gill.

IWM Film and Video Archive Loans Catalogue (2000)

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SEE ALSO
Champagne Charlie (1944)
Emergency Cooking Stoves (1941)
Filling the Gap (1942)
Food Advice Centres (1941)
Foreman Went to France, The (1942)
Queen's Messengers (1941)
Rationing in Britain (1945)
Save Your Shillings and Smile (1943)
Way to his Heart, The (1942)
Worker and War-Front No. 1 (1942)
Dickinson, Desmond (1903-1986)
Trinder, Tommy (1909-1989)