TEE BOY

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 5th Year

Issue

Issue No.

5

Date Released

Jan 1952

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1SORTING OFFICE
2. 2HIGH TENSION
3. 3UNDER THE BORDER
4. 4TEE BOY

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - a boy golf champion, who is a Newcastle N.C.B. employee.
BFI synopsis: Profile of John Liddle, sixteen-year-old golfer, seen at Prudhoe golf course.
NCB Commentary - Meet 16 year old John Liddle - up and coming golfer who’s already won the Charles Forster Cup (though he doesn’t look as if he really believed it was his) and who’s out for greater glories this year.
Practice is the secret, says John - and yet more practice. Son of a colliery worker at West Wylam, John himself works for the NCB in Newcastle, but on a Saturday afternoon, this is where you’ll find him, out on the Prudhoe Golf Course. Tee shots, approaches, putts - John polishes them all; that’s how he’s got his handicap down to seven already. He’s been round this course so often, yet there’s something different about it every time.
This year John’s going in for the Boys’ Championship of Great Britain, Right now, it’s time for home - but we’ll be waiting to hear more of him.

Researcher Comments

BFI sources suggest that this story was filmed from the 26th November to the 1st December 1951. Commentary recorded 4 December 1951.

Keywords

Sport; Education and training; Golf; Youth

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for Synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
Film User   Vol.6 No.74 December 1952, p651.
The National Archives COAL 32   /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956

Credits:

Director

Basil Somner

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Camera

John Gunn

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Camera

Ronald Bicker