May Day

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue

Issue No.

10

Date Released

Jun 1948

Length of issue (in feet)

935

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Lighting up
2. 2Dawnshift
3. 3Dust: 2. Suppression Underground
4. 4May Day

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: The Scottish Miner’s gala with the march from Holyrood Palace, speeches by Will Lawther, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, Abe Moffat, President of the Scottish Miners and Emmanuel Shinwell ex-minister of Fuel and Power. Various competitions, highland dancing, pipers, races and the pipe band contest won by The Shotts and District Band.

Keywords

Celebrations and festivals

Locations

Edinburgh; Scotland; Holyrood House

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for Synopsis
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis   pxxxvi.

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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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