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This is a complete list of items screened during Mining Review's 20th year: September 1966 - No. 1. Open Day. Open Day at Point of Ayr colliery - a modern mine. Take Your Pick. Research on mining picks at the National Coal Board's Mining Research Establishment. Pop . Singing star Valerie Mitchell returns to her home overlooking Seaham Harbour.
Division within COAL - Photograph and Film Collections This record (browse from here by hierarchy or by reference) Catalogue description National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Films...
National Coal Board | BFI Home / Explore film & TV / Films, TV and people National Coal Board Introduction The creation of the National Coal Board (NCB) on 15th July 1946 sowed the seeds for one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units – the NCB Film Unit.
The second year of the coal industry's own newsreel. By the start of Mining Review's second year, its regular team was in place. The newsreels were produced by Donald Alexander for Data Film Productions, the commentary was delivered by John Slater, the directors were Mary Beales, Terrick Fitzhugh, Raylton Fleming, Francis Gysin, Michael …
At the Mines Mechanisation Training Centre there's an artificial coalface at which apprentices hone their drilling and coal-cutting skills, as well as the loading of coal onto the Duckbill Shaker Conveyor to transport it to the surface. There's also a look at the …
T04:05:40+00:00 BFI Screenonline: Coal Mining. The strike failed and pits closed Mining communities, once noted for their exceptionally strong social and cultural identities, were reduced to ghost towns Mine heaps were landscaped and collieries dismantled or turned into heritage sites The NCB was renamed British Coal, privatised, …
BFI Screenonline Coal Mining. nbsp 0183 32 No other industry has had such a profound effect on the economic industrial and political history of Britain as has the coal industry As David Lloyd George said quot In peace and war King Coal is the paramount lord of industry quot The industry had literally powered the industrial revolution The .
The British Film Institute (BFI) has its own archive, the BFI National Archive, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. It holds a substantial collection of government films covering many aspects of...
BFI Screenonline: King Coal King Coal A century of coal-mining on screen It's hard to overstate the importance of coal mining to the British way of life. Until the late twentieth …
The small but memorable body of British coal-mining feature films The number of British feature films revolving around miners is comparatively few in number compared with, …
The three main types of surface coal mining are strip mining, open-pit mining, and mountaintop removal (MTR) mining. Surface Mining: Strip Mining Strip mining is used where coal seams are located very near the surface and can be removed in massive layers, or strips.
Britain exports coal again, via the docks of Newcastle and Cardiff. Miners With Gloves On Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, and in training with his brother and father. …
BFI Screenonline: Film Studios and Industry Bodies > National Coal Board Film Unit (1952-84) National Coal Board Film Unit (1952-84) Film Unit The creation of the National Coal …
This item: National Coal Board Collection Volume 1: Portrait of a Miner [DVD] by Various Artists DVD £17.89 Tales from the Shipyard [DVD] by various DVD £19.89 Steel - A Century of Steelmaking on Film (2-DVD) by Various DVD £11.20 Product description NATIONAL COAL BOARD COLLECTION VOLUME 1 PORTRAIT OF A MINER
The Stars Look Down is a British film from 1940, based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same title, about injustices in a mining town in North East England.The film, co-scripted by Cronin and directed by Carol Reed, stars Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley. The film is a New York Times Critics' Pick and is …
The BFI DVD collection Portrait of a Miner showcases and celebrates the extraordinary work of the National Coal Board Film Unit which operated from 1947-1984, producing films to inform, entertain and galvanise working people across the country.
BFI Screenonline: Coal Mining The rise and fall of a once-great industry No other industry has had such a profound effect on the economic, industrial, and political history of Britain …
To analyse coal mining data against your own data you will need to use geographic information systems (GIS) software. The datasets available are all raster images without details of individual...
It's the raw stuff of documentary - the image of life and truth in a pin-sized magazine story. These brief images of life and truth were seen by large audiences; at its peak in the 1950s, the NCB claimed that Mining Review was shown in half the cinemas in the country - about 800 cinemas - and seen by millions of people. Ros Cranston.
Coal Face This short but potent film is an official classic of the British documentary movement, and an 'oratorio of coal mining'. Filmography How the Savings Bank Works. The Front Line Show more Home / Explore film & TV / Films, TV and people
David Leland, 1990) saw its unemployed miner protagonist ( Liam Neeson) forced to take up bare-knuckle boxing when a local crime boss makes him an offer that's hard to refuse. Mark Herman 's mournful tragicomedy Brassed Off (1996) explicitly examined the effect of the 1992 pit closures on a small mining community whose brass band may be the ...
Coalmining is visually unique, dramatic, elemental, iconic - and a huge filmmaking challenge. Small wonder that it's the industry with the richest and deepest screen history of all. Watch for free MinerMiner …
Monthly film magazine for the coal industry and mining communities. It was common for companies, such as Shell and British Transport Film, to produce industrial cine …
The National Coal Board - The Documentaries. What the NCB made aside from the long-running 'Mining Review'. By far the best-known part of the National Coal Board 's film …
The new £400 million coal complex of Selby is nearing completion, and interviews with the local council, the NCB and miners reveal high hopes that it will lead to more coal fields …
The mining of coal from surface and underground deposits today is a highly productive, mechanized operation. History Ancient use of outcropping coal There is archaeological evidence that coal was burned in funeral pyres during the Bronze Age, 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, in Wales.
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