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#0183;#32;Suggested by a visit to the National Coal Board''s research laboratory at Stoke Orchard, this Mining Review item (filmed from 5th8th December 1950) examines the technology behind a new type of safety lamp lock. As the makers of Mining Review would have been only too aware from their own experience of filming down mines, there were stringent safety precautions in place regarding lighting
#0183;#32;The middle period of the coal industry''s own newsreel. The 1960s were, for Mining Review, a particularly lively impressive but sometimes formulaic craftsmanship of the 1940s and ''50s output was married to a more varied, adventurous range of styles and subjects.
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#0183;#32;Dorothy Hyman, sprinter and miner''s daughter from Barnsley, returns from the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome with two medals: silver in the 200m and bronze in the 300m. In her day job, she works as a tracer for the National Coal Board at the Area Headquarters at Ardsley Hall. After the excitement and
#0183;#32;Mining Review took viewers round the regions with the National Coal Board in this case, to Nottinghamshire, where a special train takes dignitaries to visit the new colliery at Calverton. With a predicted million tons of coal a year for the next 100 years, it''s sad to discover this colliery closed in 1999 without reaching half of its anticipated lifespan.
Paralleling the division between technology and social stories in Mining Review, it''s divided into three rather unequal parts. The first and longest, taking us through a ''typical'' miner''s shift underground at Hilton Main colliery, Staffordshire, works well as a selfcontained documentary and a primer on the technological state of play in 1950 (still early days in the NCB''s mechanisation strategy).
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From 15th Year Number 1, September 1961, the National Coal Boards own Film Unit produced the series until its demise in 1983. All issues of Mining Review were distributed to cinemas on 35mm (by National Screen Services until 1955, and after by DATA Distribution).
This edition of Mining Review from January 1952 covers the inauguration of a new shaft in Nottinghamshire, a ''free week'' at Pwllheli Butlins in Wales and a golfing break from work. There''s also a visit to Southall Studios where actor John Gregson shoots a scene from The Brave Don''t Cry, a dramatic recreation of a recent mining disaster.
#0183;#32;Monthly film magazine for the coal industry and mining communities. It was common for companies, such as Shell and British Transport Film, to produce industrial cinemagazines, and one of the earliest and longlasting productions for the National Coal Board was Mining its cue from the popular cinemagazines of the 1930s and ''40s, such as Path#233; Pictorial and Eve''s Film Reviews
#0183;#32;It''s coal on ice! This March 1948 edition of Mining Review, the coal industry''s monthly cinemagazine, has a wintry feel. As well as a story on emergency measures to keep the nation''s fuel supplies moving during freezing weather, it includes a feature on Dunfermline miner Tom Syme, an Olympic icehockey hopeful in training at his local skating rink before heading for St Moritz.
The twentyfifth year of the coal industry''s own newsreel. This is a complete list of items screened during Mining Review''s 25th year: September 1971 No. 1. The Air We Breathe Clean air in mines. The NCB''s work in keeping a dust and pollutionfree environment underground. *This film can be viewed on BFI InView. October 1971 No. 2
The nineteenth year of the coal industry''s own newsreel. This is a complete list of items screened during Mining Review''s 19th year: September 1965 No. 1. Guys and Dolls Lancashire Miner''s Gala complete with beauty queens and wrestlers. Push Button A colliery selfservice canteen in operation. Miners at Sea Yorkshire miners who are also sea
Mining Review 1st Year No. 1: The Miner''s Song: September 1947: 35mm, black and white, 3 mins : Production Company: Crown Film Unit: Sponsor: National Coal Board
Mining Review 15th Year No. 8. From Llanduff to Castleford on an intriguingly odd tour of the UK''s coal industry. Cinemagazine 1962 10 mins. Watch for free. This is a BFI project and anyone can help. Go to our Britain on Film crowdsourcing site and contribute to our mapping mission
As is often the way in mining review this issue is a bit of a coal sandwich a couple of stories covering community activities butter the bread but its in the filler where the national significance of developments in technology or policy and their potenti,Bfi screenonline mining review the s s .
Britain''s mines were nationalised on 1 January 1947, though it quickly became apparent that this made no appreciable difference to the working conditions of the ordinary miner. As a result, there were frequent disagreements between the National Union of Mineworkers
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