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  1. LONGANNET

    Date released
    Jun 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346288
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Longannet Power Station, Scotland, will be opened in 1968 and use six million tons of coal a year, brought by underground conveyor from neighbouring mines NCB Commentary - Up the Firth of...

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  2. TIN MINE

    Date released
    Nov 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345978
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a modern tin mine in Cornwall. Underground workings and ore-dressing plant NCB Commentary - This is Land’s End. Near here the Phoenicians are supposed to have landed. Over two thousand years...

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  3. On the Move

    Date released
    Dec 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345681
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Manvers Main - modern underground haulage system

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  4. ROOF BOLTING

    Date released
    Nov 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345980
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: how this modern technique helps safety underground in mines. NCB Commentary - Above ground the earth looks solid enough, but miners know better. Underground the strata of different rocks are...

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  5. Bats of Tamana, The (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willcock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the complex network of life in the caverns of Tamana Cave under the tropical forests of Trinidad, which depends on one group of animals - the bats, which feed in the forest outside, but return to...

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  6. Glamorgan & Derbyshire - Progress in Safety

    Date released
    Mar 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346323
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: A safety exhibition at Glamorgan College of Technology and the ‘self rescuer’ is shown in use underground. NCB Commentary - This is coal dust - being spread in measured quantities along an...

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  7. A Pit is Reborn: 6. Mosley Common

    Date released
    Feb 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345504
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: large reconstruction at the colliery near Manchester, with surface buildings and underground mine cars

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  8. Madmen and Specialists, By Wole Soyinka (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 91 min.

    The play ‘Madmen and Specialists’, which is set in Nigeria after a bitter civil war, presents a series of characters - comic, sinister, traditional and modern, who have been and are being affected by...

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  9. Learning the Right Way

    Date released
    Oct 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345486
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Summary - Scottish training centre. BFI synopsis: Young men are given practical instruction underground at Mossbeath Colliery near Cowdenbeath. Accompanied by cartoon safety film with the character Davey...

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  10. NORTH BY NORTH-EAST

    Date released
    Oct 1975
    Series name
    Review 29th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346673
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: A survey of the North East coalfield which extends far out under the North Sea. John Mills, the Coal Board’s member in charge of coal production, surveys it from both the air and underground.

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