Their Safety Is Your Trust (1940-1949)

Documentary showing the work of the . (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) during World War Two. Starts with short montage of England in peacetime showing horse riding, shepherd with dog, boy and mother feeding chickens, cows in farmyard. Intertitle: ’War Alters Everything - The protection of our animals must be our first care’. Shows an . inspector rushing to help a milkman with horse drawn milk float (United Dairies) and unharness his horse during an air-raid. (Intercut with HE111 [Heinkel 111] bombers in flight). Shire horses seen being led from bombed stables and treated for minor wounds. ’Domestic Pets Are Not Forgotten’ title card, with sequence of . inspector rescuing cats from bombed building. Intertitle: ’The Animal Rescue League are able to trace the grateful owner’ going on to show cats being reunited with their owner after tracing through the register. . inspectors seen combing through bombed buildings to save caged birds and also d