Learning on ScreenLand Reclamation
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In Wales they are moving mountains. Maggie Palmer goes to investigate and discovers how the old blackened slopes above the coal mines are being levelled and landscaped. Maggie talks to Alex Christie who is in charge of all reclamation work at Groes Faen and finds out more about all that can be done with disused coal mines.
- Researcher Comments
- Other locations visited include Ty Trist comprehensive school, Tredegar. Mr Christie worked for the Welsh Development Agency. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Environment; Industry and manufacture; Landforms
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/928
- Credits:
-
- Support services
- Brian Chaston
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Camera
- Crystal Films
- Support services
- Eric Halliday
- Director
- Eric Halliday
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
- Producer
- Sylvia Eley
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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