News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue

Issue No.

7

Date Released

Mar 1948

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Living in
• 2. New Look for Tanks
• 3. Keep it Moving
• 4. Coal on Ice

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

NoS synopsis: A portrait of the residential training centre at Easington in County Durham, examining the wider environment, stressing the advantages of living in ("the boys are able to get a hundred hours more training than is possible by the non-residential method") and showing the boys playing football and sitting down to meals as well as attending lectures. It also stresses the camaraderie between staff and students, with the warden taking on a talent-spotting role and recommending boys for specific jobs. As the commentary concludes "it’s not only lectures and physical training that’s important, it’s the fact that these lads work and play together in a miniature community."

Researcher Comments

This story was advertised by DATA with the title, ‘Easington Residential Training Centre’.

Keywords

Education and training; Mining

Locations

England; County Durham; Easington

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - bfi screenonline
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis   pxxxvi.
Documentary Film News   Vol.7 No.65, May 1948, p62.
BFI Screenonline synopsis   ID No.474506

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Director

Francis Gysin

Camera

Kenneth Reeves

Sponsor

National Coal Board

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