Learning on ScreenDust: 3. Rehabilitation
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Section Title
- Dust
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: What to do with miners who already have pneumoconiosis. Since it’s essentially incurable, causing permanent damage to the lungs, the NCB uses a mixture of compensation and retraining. Factories are built nearby which offer light work, and employers agree to take on a quota of disabled men. However, this will only help a relatively small percentage of ex-miners. Other initiatives include work related to mining, but in safer environments - sometimes the ex-miners’ own homes, when they’re too ill to work in an industrial environment. Raw materials are delivered and finished work collected for sale, and the men are able to top up their compensation. The film concludes with a call for more assistance, emphasising that these men became ill through helping Britain meet its ever-increasing demands for coal.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - bfi screenonline
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.
BFI Screenonline synopsis ID No.474449
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Cutter
- Mary Beales
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
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Film Archive
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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