Paper Chase Save Paper (1943)

Title reads: “M of I - Government Official“. Ministry of Information trailer asking people to help war effort by collecting waste paper - Paper Chase saves paper. Actor playing Adolf Hitler dressed as decorator. He makes speech to camera in comedy German. He then pastes up a sign - “New Order“ - over map of Europe. Various shots showing waste paper being collected, shredded and pulped, intercut with shots of what the paper is made into: shell cases, gear wheels, aeroplanes and cartridge wads. Man in office making big pile of waste paper, including a big book and a small bus ticket. Various shots Hitler hanging wallpaper, he slips and hangs himself (sounds gruesome - actually quite funny!) End title reads: “All the paper you can spare goes to Hitler - by air“. NB: item part of Gazette issue 43/74. 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.