Learning on ScreenNational Story - NCB - TV
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- Series Name
- Mining Review 18th Year
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: Mobile television studio in action in South Wales.
NCB Commentary - Up into daylight at the end of the shift - and what on earth is a television screen doing at pit bank?
The story starts in a workshop, where perhaps the world’s first television studio on wheels is being built.
Inside his trailer will be housed a complete television channel. This is where the inter-view studio will go. And at the other end is the control room, where films can be run through a telecine machine and there is even a videotape recording facility.
Engineer Gerry Don is in charge of the technical side. His wife Jane will do the interviewing in the studio. And the whole outfit is designed to promote safety.
In London, Lord Robens took delivery of the unit. A crowded press conference saw the Coal Board Chairman interviewed inside the mobile studio.
First stop, South Wales. The television unit started its working life at Penallta Colliery, putting out its safety message twice a day.
Manager Llewellyn was first to see the outfit in action.
From the control room, programmes are transmitted to 5 big TV screens located on the surface at points where men gather together at shift times.
Two screens in the colliery canteen attracted a fascinated audience, who saw films - and some of their own workmates being interviewed.
It was the same at pit bank as the unit started its four of all the major collieries in South Wales. Lord Robens sums up the whole purpose behind this new and forward-looking development in the mines. - Keywords
- Television
- Locations
- Wales
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue 1969, p.50
The National Archives COAL 32 /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Production Co.
- National Coal Board Film Unit
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