Learning on ScreenYour Move
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- Summary - housing for miners.
BFI synopsis: The move of the Wilks family from their cramped, shared house in Holmewood Derbyshire to a new purpose-built and prefabricated house near Chesterfield. Includes views of various prefabricated houses built - steel, asbestos, concrete, foam slag and aluminium houses. - Researcher Comments
- According to bfi sources this story was researched in February 1948. It was then filmed on the 17th and 18th of March 1948. It was advertised by DATA under the title ‘Rehousing in Derbyshire’.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Domestic life; Town and country planning
- 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Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.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.1227779
- Credits:
-
- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Camera
- James Ritchie
- Commentator
- John Slater
- Support services
- Mary Beales
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 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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