News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

Dec 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

968

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. SING IT ABROAD
• 2. TROUT AGAIN
• 3. SUPPLY VEHICLE
• 4. TIME IN THE SUN

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: A party of Derbyshire miners on holiday in Riccione, Italy.
NCB Song lyrics - I’ll tell you a tale of some Derbyshire miners
who travelled to It’ly in search of the sun.
They stopped on the seashore at blue Riccione,
and hired an Hotel to put up ev’ryone.

But when it came to eating,
precautions they had taken.
They’d brought their own food with them.
They must have English bacon.

Hark! the going is sounding!
The crowd at once grows thinner.
It’s nice to come to It’ly,
for good old English dinner.

By evening our miners at last were unbuttoned;
they’d had all the sun they could possibly wish;
and so they decided to risk their digestions
on trying to eat an Italian dish.

So they asked for pizza!
(It’s just been tossed on high!)
They ate the pizza. It’s a -
Italian kind of pie!

What’s more, they didn’t die! -

Keywords

Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Mining

Locations

Italy; Riccione

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The British National Film Catalogue   Vol.2 1964, p.55
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit