The Housewife's Story, from Pathe News. No commentary: at least we're spared the usual patronising cut-glass voice-over of the period, so well captured by Mr Cholmondley-Warner.
Life in post-war Labour Britain seems to have involved a lot of filling in forms and sitting in queues to get your ration coupons. And happily leaving your baby outside in the pram while you did it.
Mainly of interest perhaps to those who know Crouch End now.
But we didn't need rationing, just like nationalisation squandered much needed capital and put the state in charge of important industries. Look how well that turned out!
Posted by: tolkein | January 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM
This certainly goes some way to explaining why there's so little nostalgia for the late 40s. Very hard to see why this was made, or to know who the intended audience might have been. If it was intended as documentary, everyone in the UK would have known this is what life was like. Pathe presumably wouldn't have wanted to export the vision of drabness. There's no narrative, if you discount the unexplained transition from giant pram to pushchair and the simultaneous change in Mrs Cannon's attire, which adds an air of mystery at odds with the prevailing tone.
Posted by: Richard Powell | January 21, 2013 at 10:54 PM