BFI Screenonline: Queen's Messengers (1941)

Queen's Messengers (1941)

Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum


35mm, black and white, 6 mins

Director	Jay Gardner Lewis
Production Company	Strand Film Company
Producer	Jay Gardner Lewis
Camera	G.E.Gibbs, Jo Jago
Commentator	Frederick Allen

From the Imperial War Museum Loan Collection

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The work of mobile canteens in providing food to air raid victims and civil defence workers.

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A dramatised account of a night with a convoy of mobile canteens manned by the Women's Voluntary Service, which brings food, soup, tea and comfort to people bombed out of their homes.

IWM Film and Video Archive Loans Catalogue (2000)

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	Complete film (6:24)

	GALLERY / SCRIPTS / AUDIO

	SEE ALSO

	Eating Out With Tommy Trinder (1941)
	Emergency Cooking Stoves (1941)
	Filling the Gap (1942)
	Food Advice Centres (1941)
	Rationing in Britain (1945)
	Way to his Heart, The (1942)
	Worker and War-Front No. 1 (1942)