ABSTRACT
This chapter charts the representation of the garden in documentary and fiction films of the Second World War and focuses on food and the latter on flora, both centre on the leveling of class structure. In Canterbury Tale the central character, Alison loves the landscape and informs one of her contemporaries that her pre-war occupation was working as a sales assistant in a department store selling garden furniture. The film WWII Blitz London: Children's Allotment Gardens focuses on a group of children working on allotments on a bombed site. The film commences with the image of a young boy riding a small three-wheeler bicycle through the streets of London and he arrives at a vegetable garden where other children are tending crops. The campaign for the production of food not only concerned the need to provide for the country, but also engendered a sense of community and feelings of patriotism.
