News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue

Issue No.

5

Date Released

Jan 1959

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. PREVIEW IN POLAND
• 2. CORNWALL - PACKAGED COAL
• 3. Denaby United v. Oldham Athletic
• 4. NOTTINGHAM - TRAINING FOR MANAGEMENT

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: Mining Review interviews men selected for the mining industry’s Directed Practical Trainee Scheme.
NCB Commentary - The training of people to take over managerial and technical posts in the modern coal industry is essential to the future of mining.
This man, Manager of one of the big new collieries now being sunk, was a Directed Practical Trainee. Let’s see how the D. P. T. programme, as it’s called, works. This is one of the coal industry’s management training schemes.
Mining Review called in at a meeting where trainees compare notes on their progress.
Yes, it’s up to them. From men like these will come the colliery managers, the engineers and the techincal specialists which Britain’s mining industry needs, to look after the future.

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 8th December 1958.

Keywords

Education and training; Mining

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.13 No.150 April 1959, p193.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board