CLUB MEETING

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

Sep 1952

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1FIRST CUT
2. 2FREE WEEK
3. 3CLUB MEETING
4. 4ON SET

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - Golfing miners at Gleneagles.
BFI synopsis: Miners from Woolmet Colliery (Midlothian) play golf.
NCB Commentary - At Woolmet Colliery, Midlothian, it’s a pit holiday. And the colliery golf club, headed by pit manager David Stevenson, is taking a day out.
They head west, into Perthshire, through the woods and streams of the highland foothills, to Gleneagles, the luxury hotel famed for its immaculate golf courses.
First man to tee up is Dave Gordon, striking out on to the Queen’s Course. For him so far it’s plain sailing, but here’s one man in trouble already. John Thompson is bewitched, bunkered and bewildered.
Club captain Stevenson had a good round, and steered well clear of trouble. In Scotland, golf is the game that everyone can afford to play. For miners, hacking bunkers makes a change from hewing coal, and what’s more pleasant than to spend a day out in the fresh air with your friends in surroundings like these - with the thought of the 19th hole to come?

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 1 August 1952.

Keywords

Sport; Entertainment and leisure; Mining; Golf

Locations

Scotland; Gleneagles

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for Synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
Film User   Vol.8 No.87 January 1954, p32.
The National Archives COAL 32   /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board