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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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Miners’ Gala at Durham, 1947
- Date released
- Jan 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 334737
- Story no
- 2 / 2
NoS synopsis: The miners of Durham come together for their demonstration and gala day. Shots of the crowds and the banners and bands. This was the first rally under nationalization, so it also included...
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...