From intimate drama-documentaries and sublime safety cartoons to the sheer pleasure of the topical tales to be discovered within the Mining Review cinemagazine, this collection is a beguiling invitation into the domestic, community and working life of miners and their families. In stories from the coalfields of Scotland, Wales and England - from pit ponies to brass bands, industrial accidents to the five-day week - this set presents over five hours of remastered material.
This disc includes the following episodes:
- Mining Review 1st Year No.l (1947)
- King Coal (1948)
- Nines Was Standing (1950)
- 'Miners Health Centre' from Mining Review 2nd Year No.3 (1948)
- Mining Review 2nd Year No.10 (1949)
- Mining Review 2nd Year No.12 (1949)
- Plan for Coal (1952)
- The Shovel (1953)
- 'Time Out' from Mining Review 7th Year No.8 (1954)
- 'Balletomines' from Mining Review 7th Year No.12 (1954)
- 'Hungarians in Britain' from Mining Review 10th Year No.8 (1957)
- New Power In Their Hands (1959)
- Mining Review 13th Year No.4 (1959)
- 'Stormy Genius' from Mining Review 13th Year No.8 (1960)
- Arthur Clears the Air (1961)
- 'Whitehaven Whippets' from Mining Review 15th Year No.7 (1962)
- Mining Review 16th Year No.6 (1963)
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following episodes:
- Songs of the Coalfields (1964)
- Big Job (1965)
- Portrait of a Miner (1966)
- Nobody's Face (1966)
- The First Adventures of Thud and Blunder' (1964)
- Mining Review 20th Year No.9 (1967)
- Hands, Knees and Bumps a Daisy (1969)
- Mining Review 22nd Year No.5 (1969)
- What About That Job? (Case Studies for Management No.l) (1970)
- The Bother Breeder (Case Studies for Management No.4) (1970)
- Man Failure (1971)
- I'll See You (Too Late Now No.2) (1976)
- A Beautiful Memory (Too late Now No.3) (1976)
- You Pick the Moment (Too Late Now No.4) (1976)
- Miners (1976)
- Review 32nd Year No.l (1978)
- 40 Years On (1978)
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