Results: Stories
51 results found for '"BFI Screenonline synopsis"' in Footage or Written Source.
Cutter loader
- Date released
- Sep 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 334706
- Story no
- 1 / 3
BFI Summary - the Meco Moore cutter-loader is demonstrated and explained. COI Commentary - You may know the Meco-Moore. I dare say there’s one in your pit. Or perhaps there will be soon if you’ve got...
Five day week?
- Date released
- Sep 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 334707
- Story no
- 2 / 3
BFI synopsis: Miners discuss the possibilities of a five day week for miners in a pub. COI Commentary - 1st man: A Five Day week. Can we afford it? 2nd man: Well, I am all in favour of a five-day week. We...
The miners’ song
- Date released
- Sep 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 334708
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI synopsis: Carroll Levis presents a miners song. COI Commentary - Today we salute the miners who have the tremendous task of bringing coal to us in this day of need. I have written the Miners Song, as a...
Welsh Debate
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334728
- Story no
- 4 / 4
NoS synopsis: This staged debate shows members of the Lodge Committee of the Cwmgrach Empire Colliery discussing issues concerning mining machinery - the main question being whether they’re being...
Bestwood Training Centre
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334725
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: Bestwood Training Centre in Nottinghamshire COI Commentary - These lades are going to be miners, but how are they going to learn the job? Should they be sent straight down the pit, where...
Open Cast Mining
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334726
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: opencast mining for coal COI Commentary - It’s Easter in Workington, on the Cumberland Coast, and everyone is waiting for the start of the historic annual football match between the Uppies...
Workington Football
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334727
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: A football match at Workington COI Commentary - COMMENTARY: Today, every available method is being used to back up the miners in their drive for more coal. In the South Wales coalfield,...
The problem of smoke elimination
- Date released
- Jan 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 334736
- Story no
- 1 / 2
NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...
Living in
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334741
- Story no
- 1 / 4
NoS synopsis: A portrait of the residential training centre at Easington in County Durham, examining the wider environment, stressing the advantages of living in ("the boys are able to get a hundred hours...
New Look for Tanks
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334742
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: Old Sherman tanks converted for opencast mining. Tanks seen in action; Sherman tanks (eighty of them) in a Staffordshire field. One is driven to factory where they are converted into machines...