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PARIS PARLEY

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 18th Year

Issue

Issue No.
1
Date Released
Sep 1964
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1PARIS PARLEY
  2. 2144 MINUTES HARD
  3. 3A KINGDOM OF Coal

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 3
Summary
BFI synopsis: delegates from Western European countries meet for the Paris International Energy Exhibition.
NCB Commentary - No, it isn’t Blackpool! This year the Eiffel Tower is 75-years old.
From the top an airman’s view of Paris.
The Avenue des Champs Elysees strides in magnificent splendour towards the Arc de Triomphe - at night it is a river of light.
The painters are hard at it in Monmartre and the couples, bless’em still sit in the parks.
This summer, under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, to attend the International Energy Conference, came Britain’s Lord Robens.
The Conference had as its theme, the future of the European Coal Industry.
Energy experts and journalists from West European countries were on hand to hear the speakers.
On the other side of Paris, the sense of co-operation was reinforced at the International Energy Exhibition.
Electricity ... Gas ... Atomic Power ... and, of course, Coal.
Lord Robens saw, among other countries’ exhibits, the Coal Board’s own stand.
There was a working mock-up of a British coal face, equipped with a Trepanner.
Two of the three young graduates chosen to demonstrate modern British mechanisation techniques are working in Midlands pits.
And when darkness came, the product of the energy visitors to Paris had been learning about during the day, was writ large for all to see across the night sky.
Keywords
Mining; Exhibitions and shows; Fuels
Locations
France; Paris
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
Credits:
Sponsor
National Coal Board
Production Co.
National Coal Board Film Unit

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