Pithead Nurse

Series

Series Name: Mining Review 1st Year

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

Apr 1948

Length of issue (in feet)

900

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.

Researcher Comments

According to bfi sources, this story was filmed on 17th and 18th February 1948. It was advertised by DATA under the title ‘Colliery Medical Room’.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Mining

Locations

Sunderland; England

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Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.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
Cutter: Mary Beales
Sponsor: National Coal Board
Director: Peter Pickering
Camera: Ronald Bicker
Camera: S. Bradford
Camera: Wolfgang Suschitzky

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