MARGARET BAKER IN LECTURES AND STORIES

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Margaret Baker, standing beside two flipcharts with drawings of ‘happy’ and ‘ruined ‘men'. She holds up seven paper bottles and then a string of 42 pennies (19p) - the cost of a bottle of beer every day for a week. (clip)

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Title: MARGARET BAKER IN LECTURES AND STORIES

Reference number: 2358

Date: 1937*

Sponsor: Sir German Sims Woodhead Memorial Trust

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.58 mins

Description: An open-air lecture by Margaret Baker telling the story about the dangers of drink, and propounding the benefits of drinking milk.

From collection of temperance propaganda films.

Shotlist: Credits (.02) Margaret Baker gives outdoor lecture using drawings to illustrate the narrative. The benefits of milk and beer (3.34) The story of Humphrey Handyman who was incapable of doing anything until he signed the pledge (5.50) The Marketing Basket. Amelia Gubbins goes shopping. Story on the benefits of milk (8.50) c/u of Mrs. Baker and Margaret (8.58)