Results: Stories
1,128 results found for '"National Coal Board"' in Credits.
Songs of the Coalfields
- Series name
- Mining Review Composite Editions
- Issue no
- CMR11
- NoS ID
- 346848
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NCB synopsis: A collection of miners’ ballads. Ewan MacColl and Isla Cameron, leading folk singers of today, appear in this film to sing six traditional mining ballads: The Sandgate Nursing Song, The Best...
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...
Keep it Moving
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334743
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: emergency measures for the transport of coal in winter weather; volunteers at Haslemere station help to move coal supplies.
Coal on Ice
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334744
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: Ice hockey featuring miner players from Blair Hall Colliery in Scotland. Tom Syme, a miner and a member of the British Olympic ice hockey team. He is seen off at Dumfermline station by family...
Pithead Nurse
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334745
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.
Turn of the Tide
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334746
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: Britain exports coal again, looking at the docks of Newcastle and Cardiff.
Miners with Gloves on
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334747
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other...
Rolling it out
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334748
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: The production of conveyor belts for the coalmines by the British Tyre and Rubber Co. at their Silvertown works in London.
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...