Miners with Gloves on
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other fights from the championship are also seen - A. Mosely of Mosely Common v Tommy Blears of Cleworth and Alf Roberts of Lea Green v T. Walsh of Brackerley.
- Researcher Comments
- According to bfi sources this story was filmed from the 23rd to the 27th February 1948. It was advertised by DATA under the title ‘Boxing’.
- Keywords
- Boxing
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for Synopsis
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.
Documentary Film News Vol.7 No.65, May 1948, p62.
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Cutter
- Mary Beales
- Camera
- Michael Clarke
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Camera
- Robert Ziller
- Camera
- Ronald Bicker
- Camera
- Wolfgang Suschitzky
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How to cite this record
'Miners with Gloves on', Mining Review 1st Year Issue No. 8, Apr 1948. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/334747 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)