LINE UP

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue

Issue No.

3

Date Released

Nov 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

892

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1LINE UP
2. 2HIGH TATRAS
3. 3KENT’S BEST
4. 4TREE SHIFT

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: a news flash on electricity generation and what it means to the miners
NCB Commentary - Dots on a map ... but dots to conjure with.
For everyone is a new power station - building, or soon to begin building - and every one is to be fired by coal.
A typical new power station burns five million tons of coal in a year - and needs the work of ten thousand miners to provide it.
Britain is an island of coal, and our power, and heat and light must largely come from coal.
- Cottam ... Fiddler’s Farry ... Ratcliffe ... Longannet - certainly names to conjure with - but only a few among the score or so now being built to produce the power we need.

Keywords

Mining; Fuels; Energy resources

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The British National Film Catalogue   Vol.2 1964, p.55
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit