Learning on ScreenCoal on Ice
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: Ice hockey featuring miner players from Blair Hall Colliery in Scotland. Tom Syme, a miner and a member of the British Olympic ice hockey team. He is seen off at Dumfermline station by family and friends. Training at Dumfermline ice rink.
- Researcher Comments
- According to bfi sources, this story was shot in the 16th January 1948 in Dunfermline on a three-day shoot. It was advertised by DATA under the title ‘Miner plays Ice Hockey’.
- Keywords
- Mining; Winter sports
- Locations
- Scotland
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.
Documentary Film News Vol.7 No.65, May 1948, p62.
- Credits:
-
- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Support services
- Douglas Lyne
- Producer
- Francis Gysin
- Camera
- John Reid
- Cutter
- Mary Beales
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Director
- Peter Pickering
- Camera
- Ronald Bicker
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Phone
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- Fax
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- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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