FOX HUNT

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 4th Year

Issue

Issue No.

12

Date Released

Aug 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1DIGGING DEEP
2. 2MINERS’ FESTIVAL
3. 3FOX HUNT
4. 4Personal Call: 1. We Visit Donisthorpe

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: miners keep down foxes with hunting dogs in Neath Valley, Wales.
NCB Commentary - High up in the Neath valley, at the foot of Craig-y-llyn, the farmers and shepherds are being robbed. This is one of the criminals: foxes which terrorise the neighbourhood as they raid the valleys from their mountain hideouts. Many of them live in old abandoned workings in the hills. Sights like this are too common for the famers’ liking.
But every weekend a pack of dogs sets out from the village of Cwngwrach, and with them - a bunch of miners, who’re doing what they can in their spare time to keep down the foxes. Joe Collins, 62-year-old ex-miner and his nine miner sons find good sport in doing a good turn for the neighbours. What’s more, for every fox brush they turn in, the National Farmers’ Union pays them ten bob. Cheap at the price, some folks would say, after a day’s tramping over rough country like this.
The dogs have picked up a scent. Still, everybody, but keep your eyes open. Now they’ve seen something. There he goes. This is all first-time stuff - you don’t get a second shot at a fox streaking over these rocks. Emlyn Eynon is the marksman who’s on to him first. And he’s got him! Dogs and men scramble down the rocky slopes, and, as usual, the dogs are there first. Easy now - here he is. A fine big dog fix. One less pest to raid the mountain sides.

Keywords

Shooting; Dogs; Mining; Animals; Hunting

Locations

Wales

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Director

John H. Shaw-Jones

Sponsor

National Coal Board