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  1. Oil Success and Failure

    Date released
    11 Mar 1963
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    63/21
    NoS ID
    110583
    Story no
    3 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Glen Davis, former oil-from-shale centre, is now abandoned ghost town.

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  2. Petrol - 2d a Gallon

    Date released
    11 Mar 1935
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    421
    NoS ID
    033754
    Story no
    2 / 7

    Motorists’ dream realised. Miracle method of extracting high-grade fuel from shale is explained by inventor, Mr Nat Freeman.

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  3. SHALE SPEEDWAY

    Date released
    Oct 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345720
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: mines by-products used at speedway in Hanley, Staffordshire. The event is an international evening - Britain v Overseas. NCB Commentary - Harley, of the Five Towns, where pottery and...

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  4. Hoverport

    Date released
    Jul 1969
    Series name
    Mining Review 22nd Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346457
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: The new Hoverport at Pegwell Bay was built in record time on red and black colliery shale.

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  5. At the Coalface. British Movietone News Descends 700ft. Below Ground

    Date released
    3 Mar 1930
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    39
    NoS ID
    002388

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Coal Special. South Wales Colliers Go Down the Mine. SHOTLIST: The first sound pictures of a British Coalmine exclusive to British Movietone News. GV Pan over pithead. MS Mass of miners...

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  6. Denby Washery

    Date released
    Dec 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    334735
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI Summary - The coal washeries at Denbigh. COI Commentary - To the Denby Hall Washery in Nottinghamshire, come trucks from three local collieries. Eventually, when drifts have been dug, the coal will...

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  7. Northumberland - Throckley works

    Date released
    Jun 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346335
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A new NCB brick-factory equipped with the latest automatic machinery is turning out nearly half a million bricks a week. Open-cast extraction of shale and clay (various views of the drag line...

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  8. Waste not - want not

    Date released
    Feb 1977
    Series name
    Review 30th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346705
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: Emphasises that everyone can play a part in conserving resources, in particular the treatment and recycling of waste, from scrap metal and waste paper to colliery shale and domestic refuse.

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  9. Bricks by the Million

    Date released
    16 Nov 1933
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    650
    NoS ID
    333323
    Story no
    5 / 5

    NoS Summary - Processes involved in making bricks. British Pathe synopsis: "Filmed at Fletton". "Just the kind of clay your gardening friend detests is the sort they like here" L/S of a clay quarry with...

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  10. GIANT CLEANER

    Date released
    Sep 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345889
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Manvers Main coal preparation plant, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - At Yorkshire’s Manvers Main Colliery the biggest coal preparation plant in Europe nears completion. From four surrounding...

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