Nottinghamshire - SLOW, SLOW, QUICK, QUICK, SLOW

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue

Issue No.

7

Date Released

Mar 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Nottinghamshire - SAM THORNEYCROFT
2. 2Fife - SPOT PRIZE
3. 3London - SPECIFY QUALITY
4. 4Nottinghamshire - SLOW, SLOW, QUICK, QUICK, SLOW

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: A colliery deputy, Martin Shaw, who is also a dance band leader, who spends 3 to 4 evenings a week playing around the Nottinghamshire Coalfield.
NCB Commentary - Martin Shaw is a bandleader - with a difference. He plays string bass in a band specialising in the music of the 20s and 30s, and his daytime life is spent down in the bottom register too - he’s a deputy at Newstead Colliery.
Most evenings in the week, with the dayshift ended at Newstead, Martin Shaw lays down his deputy’s stick to take up his bass fiddle and it’s off on the road again to another one-night stand.

Keywords

Music and dance; Mining

Locations

England; Nottinghamshire

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