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  1. Dust: 3. Rehabilitation

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334760
    Story no
    5 / 5

    NoS synopsis: What to do with miners who already have pneumoconiosis. Since it’s essentially incurable, causing permanent damage to the lungs, the NCB uses a mixture of compensation and retraining....

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  2. 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...

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  3. No Tipping Here

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334756
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Explores ways by which tips can be reduced or eliminated, and the surplus dirt pressed back into productive service. The simplest method occurs in Coventry, where the dirt is immediately...

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  4. Dust: 1. Medical Report

    Date released
    May 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    334751
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: The first of a three-part series of items about the effects of dust on working miners. It begins by explaining the problem in layman’s terms - what is now technically known as pneumoconiosis...

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  5. A Pit is Reborn: 1. Nantgarw

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334757
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Looks at the redevelopment of Nantgarw Colliery in South Wales. Previously abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, twenty years later work began on an extensive redevelopment. Redevelopment isn’t...

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  6. Coo!

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334759
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: This item focuses on one miner, Kent-based Tom Lancashire, and his bird Atomic Mealy, one of 15,000 competitors at the Pigeon Special event. Released in batches at ten-minute intervals, they...

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  7. Portrait of a Miner : The National Coal Board (Vol 1) (2009)

    Subject
    Engineering; Film studies; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 347 minutes), £24.99

    This 2-disc collection showcases and celebrates the extraordinary work of the National Coal Board Film Unit - operating between 1947-1984 - producing films to inform, entertain and galvanise working people...

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  8. COALS FROM NEWCASTLE

    Date released
    Dec 1972
    Series name
    Review 26th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346605
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: Pan from the pier heads at Tynemouth to Tynemouth Priory. The Priory, pan down to weathered gravestones. MS of uniformed man ringing bell opening the fish market at North Shields. Unloading...

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  9. Welsh Debate

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    334728
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: This staged debate shows members of the Lodge Committee of the Cwmgrach Empire Colliery discussing issues concerning mining machinery - the main question being whether they’re being...

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  10. Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

    The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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