News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

39

Date Released

3 Mar 1930

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. At the Coalface. British Movietone News Descends 700ft. Below Ground
• 2. British Bathing Belles for Beauty Challenge to Hollywood
• 3. Henley-on-Yarra Regatta - Australia’s River Pageant
• 4. Varsity Sports Trials at Oxford and Cambridge
• 5. Realistic Sound Pictures of SS Munchen Burning in New York Harbour
• *At the Coalface. British Movietone News Descends 700ft. Below Ground

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: At the Coal Face. Movietone Descends 700 Feet. SHOTLIST: At the "Powell Duffryn" colliery at Penallta. Shots of men at work underground. Pneumatic drills pick out the coal handled by the men. Trucks underground carry coal along tracks.

Keywords

Vehicles; Environment; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Engineering

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

587

Length of story (in feet)

149

Story extras:

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