NFB Collection
Thought for Food
194315 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Stanley Jackson
Production: James Beveridge
World War 2 brought Canada food shortages, and at the same time the requirement that soldiers, industrial workers and other people contributing actively to the war effort receive adequate nutrition to keep them in peak physical condition. Detailed nutritional studies revealed that ingenuity combined with a knowledge of food values led to a more varied and more nutritious diet.
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Subject categories
- Food and Food Industries > Diet and NutritionFood Shortages, Hunger and FamineWorld War II
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Economic Conditions and ShortagesHome Front
- Health and Medicine > Food Issues and NutritionWorld War II
Credits
- director
- Stanley Jackson
- producer
- James Beveridge
- camera
- Charles Quick
- music
- Lucio Agostini