Rations Aka Rationed Rags (1941)

Rationed rags. Various newspaper headlines announce clothes rationing. A woman looks despairing and counts her coupons, M/S of black crosses on pages and pages of them. A diagram shows how many coupons are needed for each item of clothing for women and men. M/S of a woman wearing just a hat and a blanket. M/S of a woman who has just a large hat to protect her modesty, she smokes a cigarette and covers herself up. M/S of a man wearing a barrel. M/S of woman in old fashioned dress, we see the amount of coupons she would have needed. Two young women say you can buy a mink coat for only 14 margarine coupons where it used to be 500 guineas. M/S of man in visor from suit of armour, he sacks the cook and uses the visor as protection when he gets things thrown at him. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT