Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime cookery. But director, artist, animator and all-round firework of a man Len Lye specialised in the unexpected. A simple tale of a mother cheering up her daughter with a pie from her rationing-stricken pantry (interestingly the war is never directly referred to) is skilfully crafted into a work of real artistic depth, while retaining an unpretentious charm.

• DirectorLen Lye
• Release1 January 1941
• Genre
  Documentary / War
• Duration0h 8m
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  7.5
  2 reviews
• Productions

  Realist Films Ltd., Ministry of Information, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food