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Series
- Series Name
- Ingot Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 2
- Summary
- BFI Summary - Italian Ambassador opens a new-style industrial hotel for foreign workers employed at the Company’s Irthlingborough (in Northamptonshire) Iron Ore mine.
NFA synopsis: An item looking at immigrant Italian workers at the Richard, Thomas and Baldwin’s employees hotel, Irthlingborough in Northamptonshire. The Italian ambassador arrives on a visit; the diplomatic party are shown the company’s iron ore mine - includes footage of underground travelling by truck; Italian workers hand-loading trucks; the mine manager demonstrates the testing of a roof; shots of the Italian workers in the R.T.B hotel, in their rooms, the canteen, and playing cards in the sitting room; they are also shown in the Irthlingborough streets and local shops. - Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure; Food and cooking; Domestic life; Transport; Industry and manufacture; Scenery and travel
- Written sources
- Viewing Copy - bfi
British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue Used for synopsis
Film User Vol.13 No.149 March 1959, p141.
- Credits:
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- Support services
- Derrick A. Gladwell
- Producer
- Geoff Busby
- Director
- Pat Pullen
- Sponsor
- Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group
- Production Co.
- Verity Films Ltd.
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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