News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 3rd Year

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

Dec 1949

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Help Yourself
• 2. Miners on Wheels
• 3. Raising the Output
• 4. Bricks and Sawdust

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI Summary - Brickworth performing dogs.
BFI synopsis: The NCB-owned brickworks at Wombwell Colliery in Yorkshire. Shows clay being quarried and women workers driving the raw bricks to the kilns on electric trolleys. Ted Fairhurst the storekeeper at the works also runs a performing animals circus - Gloria’s Dogs and Fantatils, includes scenes of Beppo the clown and a terrier dog jumping from a ladder.

Researcher Comments

According to bfi sources, this story was filmed from the 8th to the 10th September 1949.

Keywords

Dogs; Industry and manufacture; Performing arts

Locations

Yorkshire; England

Written sources

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

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Director

Peter Pickering