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Title: MINING REVIEW NO. 3

Reference number: 2606

Date: 1951

Sponsor: National Coal Board

Production company: Data Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.37 mins

Description: Barge transport of coal to London's power stations; mine shaft maintenance at night; Welsh miner Willie Pierce competing in the World Amateur Billiards competition; shots of the residential training centre for future miners at Dungavel House, Lanarkshire. [See also refs. 2607-2608].

Shotlist: Credits (.34) London. CRUISING UP THE RIVER brief shots from river Thames of Tower Bridge, St. Paul's and Houses of Parliament as the barges carry coal to the power station at Kingston (3.54) Nottinghamshire. EVERY NIGHT brief shot of ext. of mine. Shots of miners in mine maintaining the shaft at night (5.43) London. CHAMPION AMATEUR shots of Welsh miner Willie Pierce going into Burroughes & Watts for the World's Amateur Billiards Championships, for the first time since the war. Shots of him meeting Robert Marshall, Australia's amateur champion for a friendly [in the Championship, Marshall beat Pierce, breaking three English records]. c/u shots of two men playing different shots (7.30) LANARKSHIRE NEW BOYS shots of boys in class studying mining, shots inside Caines Colliery, where boys are given instruction, shots of boys on a commando-style training course (10.37)