News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

Jul 1948

Length of issue (in feet)

975

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. No Tipping Here
• 2. A Pit is Reborn: 1. Nantgarw
• 3. British Ambassador
• 4. Coo!
• 5. Dust: 3. Rehabilitation

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Section Title

Dust

Summary

NoS synopsis: What to do with miners who already have pneumoconiosis. Since it’s essentially incurable, causing permanent damage to the lungs, the NCB uses a mixture of compensation and retraining. Factories are built nearby which offer light work, and employers agree to take on a quota of disabled men. However, this will only help a relatively small percentage of ex-miners. Other initiatives include work related to mining, but in safer environments - sometimes the ex-miners’ own homes, when they’re too ill to work in an industrial environment. Raw materials are delivered and finished work collected for sale, and the men are able to top up their compensation. The film concludes with a call for more assistance, emphasising that these men became ill through helping Britain meet its ever-increasing demands for coal.

Keywords

Health and medicine

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - bfi screenonline
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis   pxxxvi.
BFI Screenonline synopsis   ID No.474449

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Cutter

Mary Beales

Sponsor

National Coal Board

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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