News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review Composite Editions

Issue

Mechanisation Issue

CMR3

Date Released

1952

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Leicestershire. Personal Call.
• 2. County Durham. Personal Call
• 3. County Durham. Personal Call
• 4. Staffordshire. Personal Call

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

NoS synopsis: The Continuous Miner at Donisthorpe Colliery.

Researcher Comments

Summarised by BFI as ‘Items from Mining Review in which John Slater visits different collieries and looks at various mechanised equipment used in mining.' Made in 1955

Keywords

Mining

Locations

England; Leicestershire

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue   1969, p.58
Film User   Vol.7 No.75 January 1953, p36.

Credits:

Commentator

John Slater

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit