Food and Magic
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| Food and Magic | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | US War Department |
| Starring | Jack Carson |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Food and Magic is a 1943 short documentary film commissioned by the United States Government during World War II. Food and Magic, was produced by the War Activities Committee of The Motion Picture Industry and it deals with food conservation and healthy eating. It stars Jack Carson as a sideshow barker who informs the crowd about proper wartime food consumption, including conservation and rationing.[1]
Archive
[edit | edit source]Food and Magic was preserved in 2008 by the Academy Film Archive. The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives.[2][3]
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External links
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- The short film Food and Magic (1943) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
Categories:
- 1943 films
- American World War II propaganda shorts
- American short documentary films
- American black-and-white films
- 1943 short documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Warner Bros. short films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language short documentary films
- English-language war films
- World War II documentary film stubs