Call to Miners

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1127
Date Released
8 Jan 1951
Date submitted
4 Jan 1951
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Coal - Call to Miners. DESCRIPTION: Mr Bevin, Mr Griffiths (Colonial Secretary and ex-miner) and Mr Noel Baker attended No 10 Downing Street to support Mr Attlee’s appeal to miners, who were represented by the executive of the NUM Meanwhile, underlining Britain’s fuel crises, coal has been arriving from America; it has been unloaded at Birkenhead, Cardiff and Dagenham. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Close up lumps of coal. Leaving - Mr Griffiths, Mr Bevin & Noel Baker, together. NUM delegates leave No 10, walk into & past camera. At Birkenhead, various shots of coal being unloaded from ship, passing through grader, & loaded onto trucks. Various angle shots of crane grabs unloading ship’s coal. Finish on line of coal trucks - loaded. Footnote: This coal is to be sold to the public at 104/10 per ton or 5/5d per cwt. it is equivalent to Northumberland Best House Coal.
Keywords
Organisations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Labour relations
Footage sources
Gaumont
Card file number
54826
Credits:
Camera
James Humphries
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Martin Gray
Length of story (in feet)
86
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Call to Miners', British Movietone News Issue No. 1127, 8 Jan 1951. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/16864 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)