Learning on ScreenNew Look for Tanks
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: Old Sherman tanks converted for opencast mining. Tanks seen in action; Sherman tanks (eighty of them) in a Staffordshire field. One is driven to factory where they are converted into machines for opencast mining. All the stages of the conversion are shown from use of oxy-acetylene cutters, overhauling of engine and installation of driver’s cab.
- Researcher Comments
- According to bfi sources, this story was filmed in February 1948. It was advertised by DATA with the title ‘Tanks into Tractors’.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Mining
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for Synopsis
Viewing Copy - bfi screenonline
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.
Documentary Film News Vol.7 No.65, May 1948, p62.
BFI Screenonline synopsis ID No.1227496
- Credits:
-
- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Director
- Francis Gysin
- Camera
- Kenneth Reeves
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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