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  1. TREE SHIFT

    Date released
    Nov 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346228
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 2 tree-planting machines imported from America show what can be done in transplanting large trees at an open-cast site. NCB Commentary - The coal we need often lies just below the surface of...

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  2. New Roots

    Date released
    Feb 1969
    Series name
    Mining Review 22nd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346437
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NoS synopsis: The NCB is growing 20,000 trees in a nursery at Leacroft, Staffs, for use in screening unsightly industry

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  3. Sand

    Date released
    Nov 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345680
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: planting trees by the Forestry Commission for pit props on the dunes of Moray Firth at Culbin Sands

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  4. USA: Dust Bowl

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 3rd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352169
    Story no
    3 / 3

    Monthly Film Bulletin synopsis: During this year alone, 10,000 American grain farmers in the ten states have been forced to abandon their lands by a contagious and deadly natural blight erosion of the soil...

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  5. MINI-MINES

    Date released
    Jul 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346252
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The model making hobby of coal board employee Percy Webb. NCB Commentary - Would you say that this was an aerial view of a modern pit? No, it’s a scale-model by Percy Webb - who works...

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  6. STEAM UP!

    Date released
    Oct 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346221
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: by replacing three old-fashioned boiler houses with a new single modern one, Sheffield City General Hospital raises more heat with less coal NCB Commentary - In Sheffield City General Hospital...

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  7. Glamorganshire - Challenge of Tomorrow

    Date released
    Feb 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346319
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NoS synopsis: Porth, in the Rhondda, is to be replanned. Cymmer Colliery is to be the focal point of the replanned community. NCB Commentary - Cymmer Colliery, at Porth, in the Rhondda Valley. Now worked...

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  8. Hands - seen by Sid Chaplin

    Date released
    Apr 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346283
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: Hands and the miner. Study of the miner’s work, ending with the modern machines that reduce heavy manual labour. NCB Commentary - The faces of men at the end of their pit shift, the faces of...

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  9. Tom McGuinness

    Date released
    May 1972
    Series name
    Mining Review 25th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346545
    Story no
    2 / 2

    BFI synopsis: Cork Street in London, pan right to John Whibley Gallery (sign seen) Notice "First Exhibition Tom McGuinness". Interior of gallery and display of oil paintings being hung and priced. Scenes in...

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  10. Nottinghamshire - Coal Grown

    Date released
    Apr 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346407
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: African violets, popular house plants, are literally reared on coal NCB Commentary - This house at Lambley is the home of Mr. G. J. Wicks. Mr. Wicks has the distinction of being Britain’s...

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