A delightful Ministry of Information short making light of the extremely serious business of dealing with incendiary bombs which conveys the still timely message that practise is always better than simply consulting the instruction manual.

First we see Hay making a complete pig's ear of dealing with one in a manner worthy of Wile E. Coyote (which undercuts his supposedly authoritative narration describing how he would go about it by the book). When a real bomb hits, his wife Muriel George and daughter Thora Hird (in pigtails & school uniform) calmly take the matter in hand because as the missus says, "I go to lectures, I don't give 'em". And the point has been wittily made that preparation is everything.

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs

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We'll say, for argument's sake, that an incendiary bomb drops in your kitchen.

Muriel George, Will Hay, and Thora Hird in Go to Blazes (1942)

Muriel George and Will Hay in Go to Blazes (1942)

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