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  1. FESTIVAL OF LABOUR

    Date released
    Dec 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346191
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: At this festival held in Battersea Park there was a working model of a coal mine, the Cresswell Colliery Band and on the athletics side Dorothy Hyman and Arthur Rowe. NCB Commentary - This...

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  2. ANTHRACITE FIELD

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345823
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: First Steps in creating a new colliery in South Wales. Anthracite mining at Cynheidre, South Wales. The initial sinking operations are undertaken by Germans who have had more experience of such...

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  3. DOWNFALL

    Date released
    May 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346245
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The fall of Oakdale’s redundant smoke stacks as this South Wales pit changes from steam-winding to an automatic electric winder. NCB Commentary - For almost 40 years the smoke of the steam...

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  4. PITS OF THE FUTURE: 1 - Bevercotes

    Date released
    Jan 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345813
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bevercotes, shaft sinking with freezing and successful unorthodox methods NCB Commentary - A year and a half ago, Bevercotes didn’t mean a thing, except to a few planning engineers. Today, on...

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  5. 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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  6. PLAN FOR SPEED

    Date released
    Nov 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346064
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a tracer at N.C.B. Headquarters near Barnsley, Dorothy Hyman is seen winning the 3 "A’s" titles for 100 and 200 yards NCB Commentary - Coming off shift at Monk Bretton Colliery in Yorkshire...

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  7. Mr and Mrs America

    Date released
    Feb 1943
    Series name
    The March of Time 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    352037
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: America has suffered less than the countries of Europe and the Pacific, but she too is being gradually transformed by war. What these changes are, and how they are being brought...

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  8. WIGAN SKIPS

    Date released
    Apr 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345867
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: skip winding at Bold colliery. NCB Commentary - In Wigan, Area General Manager Brass has long held a faith in skipwinding, the quick way of raising his tonnages to the surface. Colliery...

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  9. Palestine Problem

    Date released
    12 Nov 1945
    Series name
    The March of Time 10th Year
    Issue no
    13
    NoS ID
    352255
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: The film shows the development of the new Palestine since 1917, when it was established as the only national home for the Jewish people, to the present day. Graphically...

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  10. Lancashire - CASUALTY UNION

    Date released
    Aug 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346381
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Members of the Casualty Union at Parkside Colliery (Lancashire) devise ever new ways of simulating injuries, an essential in the training of first aid. NCB Commentary - Parkside Colliery in...

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