Save Toothpaste Tubes - Trailer (1942)

Soundtrack is currently missing for this item. Titles read: “GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL FILM“. Zoom in on a drawing in the middle of a newspaper. The drawing shows a gate with the Japanese flag in the centre. Two thuggish Japanese soldiers stand guard outside. The doors slowly open. Fade into drawing of a huge black spider with the head of a Japanese soldier. The head is burnt away by flames and a grotesque skull with Japanese features is poked through the hole in the paper, opening and shutting its jaws. M/S of hundreds of silver tubes being piled up. M/S of people walking about a busy street. There is a used toothpaste tube attached to the camera lens. The used tube is superimposed over a drawing of scrap metal in a salvage bin. The tube slowly disintegrates and melts away (this to illustrate how soft metal tubes cannot be salvaged like ordinary metals because it evaporates under intense heat). In a chemists’ we see a used toothpaste tube being returned as a man buys a new tube. Several more