News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 3rd Year

Issue

Issue No.

3

Date Released

Nov 1949

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Take Your Pick
• 2. Success Story
• 3. Where’s the Catch?
• 4. Coal in Your Stocking

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: Wentworth Silkstone (in Yorkshire) record output; production has increased from 500 tons per day to 1000 tons. Story highlights the contribution of the work force as well as that of modernization.

Researcher Comments

According to bfi sources, this story was filmed from the 6th to the 7th September 1949.

Keywords

Mining

Locations

Yorkshire; England

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for Synopsis
Film User   Vol.4 No.40 February 1950, p106.

Credits:

Camera

Cyril Moorehead

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Camera

James Ritchie

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Director

Peter Pickering

Camera

Ronald Bicker