Call to Miners

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1127

Date Released

8 Jan 1951

Date submitted

4 Jan 1951

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Coal - Call to Miners. DESCRIPTION: Mr Bevin, Mr Griffiths (Colonial Secretary and ex-miner) and Mr Noel Baker attended No 10 Downing Street to support Mr Attlee’s appeal to miners, who were represented by the executive of the NUM Meanwhile, underlining Britain’s fuel crises, coal has been arriving from America; it has been unloaded at Birkenhead, Cardiff and Dagenham. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Close up lumps of coal. Leaving - Mr Griffiths, Mr Bevin & Noel Baker, together. NUM delegates leave No 10, walk into & past camera. At Birkenhead, various shots of coal being unloaded from ship, passing through grader, & loaded onto trucks. Various angle shots of crane grabs unloading ship’s coal. Finish on line of coal trucks - loaded. Footnote: This coal is to be sold to the public at 104/10 per ton or 5/5d per cwt. it is equivalent to Northumberland Best House Coal.

Keywords

Organisations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Labour relations

Footage sources

Gaumont

Card file number

54826

Credits:

Camera: James Humphries
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Martin Gray

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