Results: Stories
52 results found for '"John Slater"' in Credits.
The Elephants Come to Town
- Date released
- 22 Jul 1946
- Series name
- Pathe News
- Issue no
- 46/58
- NoS ID
- 101214
- Story no
- 4 / 7
- Extras
- 1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list
New consignment of animals for London’s zoo arrive. Baby elephants slung from ship to shore make Dumbo’s words come true. Big game collector Frost made his elephants fly. In Austria they have a dancing...
Your Move
- Date released
- May 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 334749
- Story no
- 1 / 4
Summary - housing for miners. BFI synopsis: The move of the Wilks family from their cramped, shared house in Holmewood Derbyshire to a new purpose-built and prefabricated house near Chesterfield. Includes...
Coal Cooker
- Date released
- May 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 334750
- Story no
- 2 / 4
NoS synopsis: A look at the work of the coke ovens at Fell Coke Co., Consett in County Durham. The commentary points out that coal and steel were two of Britain’s most important industries in the late...
Dust: 1. Medical Report
- Date released
- May 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 334751
- Story no
- 3 / 4
NoS synopsis: The first of a three-part series of items about the effects of dust on working miners. It begins by explaining the problem in layman’s terms - what is now technically known as pneumoconiosis...
Central Workshops
- Date released
- Nov 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345489
- Story no
- 1 / 5
NoS synopsis: The work of Cowdenbeath Central Workshops in Scotland which employs 750 men and serves forty collieries. The workshops provide overhaul, repair and engineering facilities to the collieries....
A Pit is Reborn: 3. Macrihanish
- Date released
- Nov 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345490
- Story no
- 2 / 5
NoS synopsis: Reconstruction scheme to create a new Scottish drift mine on the Argyll coast of Scotland after 20 years. It uses up-to-date machinery now.
Miners’ Health Centre
- Date released
- Nov 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345491
- Story no
- 3 / 5
NoS synopsis: How miners at Banwen, Rhondda, helped to make a Welsh health centre with the help of their doctor, Dafydd Thomas. Scenes inside the centre include the physiotherapist and the radiographer using...
Shipyard for Colliers
- Date released
- Nov 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345492
- Story no
- 4 / 5
NoS synopsis: Shipbuilding at Sunderland, Yard No 397. The building of a collier for the coal trade around the coast of Britain. The launch and fitting out of "Pompey Light" and the loading of "Birchwood"...
Cue for Ladies
- Date released
- Nov 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345493
- Story no
- 5 / 5
NoS synopsis: A friendly match between two women champions from mining villages - Miss Ruth Harrison from Burnhopefield (near Newcastle-on-Tyne) and Miss Agnes Morris from Ammanford, Wales - featuring Joe...
Push Button Pay
- Date released
- Jan 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 345498
- Story no
- 1 / 4
NoS synopsis: Mechanised accounting in the cashier’s office in Area 6, East Midlands. Shows the operations including punch cards done by women in order to pay the miners their wages. The entire system is...