How people stayed healthy during wartime food rationing

(26 Aug 2009) SHOTLIST
US, December 1942 - The Universal Archives
1. UPSOUND: (English), contemporaneous voiceover over black and white archive of shopping before US rationing
"I also wouldn't have believed it if you'd said you couldn't go to Louis the grocer and buy all the tomato and pea soup you wanted, like for instance, this doll (woman) is doing in the good old days before the war on which you gents is an expert. A lot of you also had to have the mizuma (colloquial for money) to pay for that hard tack, but that's not the problem now. You can have a zillion bucks...
2. UPSOUND: (English), contemporaneous voiceover over black and white archive footage after rationing
"...but the way it is now you got to be a certified public accountant to buy a can of pork and beans, this improvement is what is know as rationing which I will now explain to you. First you got to add up what you got like these ladies are doing, then if what you got isn't enough you start to make a list of what it takes to feed the relatives, the kids (children) and maybe a couple of old cousins thrown in. After you do this you go and stand in line to get a book without which the grocer will positively give you a fish eye (frown). But here comes the real 'pen and ink' (colloquial for stink/problem), trying to juggle the figures so everything comes out, this makes filling out income taxes strictly for amateurs. And there are lots of people who now wish they weren't playing hooky (truant) when the teacher wasn't giving out addition and subtraction. Of course if you don't figure right you have nothing to chew on except for fresh vegetables which is hay for citizens who chew their cuds, or maybe rabbits!"
3. Close up of propaganda poster equating "fatso" (greedy people) with Hitler (called Ratso after rodent) and Japanese Emperor
4. UPSOUND: (english), contemporaneous voiceover over black and white archive footage of New York black out
"We got ourselves a dim out, (light ban) on account of the way the ships stand out against our lights so come six o'clock Fifth Avenue looks like it was in Hackensack (a city in  New Jersey)and I wouldn't have believed it."
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5. Black and white still of woman picking fruit
6. Black and white still of field being ploughed by 'land army'  women and horses
7. Black and white still of Britain's 'land army' girls transporting harvested hay
8. Black and white still of women sheltering in an underground station (subway) during bombing
9. Black and white still of homeless women and children helped by air-raid warden after bombing  
10. Black and white still of children waiting to be evacuated
11. Black and white still bombed out homeless sleeping in hammocks
12. Black and white still of central London being bombed
13. Black and white wide still of nurses in collapsing hospital during bombing
14. Black and white still of wide of St Paul's cathedral being bombed in City of London
15. Black and white still of mid shot of St Paul's cathedral being bombed in City of London
16. Black and white still of wide of women queuing at shop selling horse meat
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17. Various of Marguerite Patten entering and walking in reconstructed 1940s house in Imperial War Museum
18. Close up of raw meat and vegetables on table
19. Various  of foods available on and off ration in World War 2
20. SOUNDBITE: (English), Marguerite Patten, advisor to the British Ministry of Food during World War 2    
21. Close up of plate showing pigs liver, herring and sausages
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