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Coal Face

Item number (ISN):

355829

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1935

Item number (ISN):

355829

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

UNIDENTIFIED

Accession:

1973-0141

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1935

Production credit:

producer, John Grierson; music, Benjamin Britten

Description:

Coal mining in Britain in the 1930's. Pit head plants, men working underground by hand, with horses and machinery. Men coming off shift. Sequences on miners' row houses, smoke stacks, smoke and grime. Sequences on railway coal transportation horse drawn delivery wagon in street of village, coal-fired electric power station. Shots of Loco loading up with coal, of steam trains moving by camera, of coal cars being shunted about in hump yard, of freighter loading up with coal. <10mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. B.F.I. presentation.

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Vault ISN:

382042

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8201-0105

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7808-0644

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

398225

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0676

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

686419

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0676.mxf

Number of items:

1

Made from:

13-0676

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

694545

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0676.mp4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

13-0676

Status:

REF
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partially restricted

Consultation copy number:

V1 8201-0105

Restrictions on consultation:

No restrictions on consultation.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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