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Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- BFI Summary - Joe Baksi, American boxer, visits British miners.
COI Commentary - Joe Baksi - the American heavy-weight boxer - recently made a tour of coal mines in the Doncaster area.
Being a miner himself he was naturally interested in our methods of production ... so, let’s hear what he has to say ...
Joe Baksi: Hallo folks, I have enjoyed this trip round the British coalfields. It’s been interesting to compare them with the coalfields in the States. Conditions underground are much the same in both countries, there’s good and there’s bad, but I must say conditions on the surface in some of your pits, they’re in better condition than they are in America. Gor blimey I walked into the area of one of your pits and I thought I was going into a park. There were grass, flowerbeds, and even a fish pond. Of course, I know they’re not all like that, but seriously speaking on welfare, you have pit-head baths, canteens, sports grounds, and every other type of recreation for the boys thqat work down in those pits. You are well ahead in that respect also. I want to say on behalf of the coal miners of America, I will speak for them in wishing you all the very best, good luck, God bless, and keep punching. - Keywords
- Boxing; Mining
- Written sources
- The National Archives INF 6 /388 Used for synopsis
British Film Institute Databases
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxii.
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Crown Film Unit
- Cutter
- Don Challis
- Camera
- E. Harris
- Camera
- F. Jones
- Cutter
- Jocelyn Jackson
- Cutter
- John Legard
- Producer
- John Taylor
- Director
- Leon Clore
- Commentator
- Maurice Denham
- Sponsor
- Ministry of Fuel and Power
- Director
- R. Brownrigg
- Sound
- W. H. May
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'(Untitled record)', Mining Review 1st Year Issue No. 3, Nov 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/334731 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)