Wartime Nutrition (1943)
Propaganda Film
Instructional video on the importance of nutrition. This propaganda video focuses on the importance of nutrition and what will happen to Americans if they do not eat the right type of food. This propaganda film serves as a warning as to what will happen if we do not change our eating habits. It also highlights the issue of rationing and assures American's that rationing could be worse like our allied friends in England.
U.S. Office of War Information
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/WartimeN1943
1943
Public Domain
English
Gardening (1940)
propaganda gardening film
Instructional film on how to garden. Propaganda instructional videos told the population what they should be doing to help win the war. This film teaches the population how to properly tend and grow vegetables. It focuses mostly on the children producing theses gardens, however the film does include parents which demonstrate the importance of having family victory garden.
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/Gardening_2
1940
Public Domain
English
Henry Browne, Farmer (1942)
Propaganda film
Importance of contributing to the national food supply, and grow your own food. This propaganda video highlights the farm garden, and describes the important role that famers played in the war effort. In addition to growing produce for to sell, the Browne family also tended their own private victory garden. The other important thing to note about this video is that they used an African American family, most of the other propaganda videos casted white families. This propaganda video attempts to include a segment of the population that had been discriminated against since the foundings of our country.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/HenryBro1942
1942
Public Domain
English
Brownie's Victory Garden
Propaganda film
Cartoon to encourage the population to grow victory gardens during World War II. Victory garden propaganda videos were often specifically aimed at children. This cartoon showed kids a fun and fanciful way that vegetables grew, with the hopes of encouraging children to grow their own gardens.
Official Films, Inc.
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/6134_Brownies_Victory_Garden_00_29_12_00
Between 1939-1945
Public Domain
English
Victory Gardens
WWII film propaganda
Instructional video about growing a victory garden. Another way that FDR's government propagated victory gardens was through instructional videos that informed the population on how to properly tend gardens. They often highlighted the ease of growing a garden by having children being the ones to tend and grow the family's victory garden. These videos encouraged kids and provided a way for them to participate in the war effort by tending a victory garden.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/victory_garden
Between 1939-1945
Public Domain
English