Salvage with a Smile

Salvage with a Smile is a 1940 British short black-and-white public information film directed and written by Adrian Brunel and starring Aubrey Mallalieu, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Shiner and Phyllis Morris. It was produced by Ealing Studios and the Ministry of Supply for the Ministry of Information.

Synopsis

The educational film aims to help the "people back home" save paper, bones and metal, for the war effort.

Cast

Aubrey Mallalieu as the professor
Kathleen Harrison as the housekeeper
Ronald Shiner as the dustman
Phyllis Morris as Miss Green

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "For those wishful to help but uncertain of the method, the M.O.I. offers simple suggestions and illustrate the many uses to which the nation's salvage is put."