News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue

Issue No.

9

Date Released

May 1966

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Glamorgan - ON TOUR
• 2. National Story - THE AIR WE BREATHE
• 3. Northumberland - ORIENTAL TOUCH
• 4. Lancashire - FIREBIRDS

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: Coal Utilization Council living fire girls.
NCB Commentary - Taking the unconventional way into Manchester is a bunch of unconventional girls. To give you a clue, most of them are in show business.
On dry land, they switch to more ordinary transport. Their job is to advise people living in areas becoming smokecontrol areas. The show biz touch helps them in the job.
Working now for the Coal Utilisation Council, they’re known, appropriately enough, as the Living Fire Girls.
Of course there’s always the possibility that the lady of the house isn’t home ...
In all the new smoke control areas, demonstration houses have been prepared where householders can learn how to stay within the law - and stay warm.

Keywords

Mining; Fuels

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit