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Title: MINING REVIEW 11 No. 11 SEVENTEENTH YEAR

Reference number: 5726

Date: 1964

Production company: p.c Data Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.46 mins

Description: Island of Coal: 'Island of Coal' film competition; Mini-Mines: Percy Webb, model maker; Tunnelling Yesterday: British miners in World War I tunnelling on the Western Front; Tunnelling Today: Two pits linked by tunnel under the Firth of Forth [synopsis from booklet Films on Coal Withdrawn from General Circulation].

Credits: sd. RCA

Shotlist: MINING REVIEW 11 SEVENTEENTH YEAR (.14) In this issue - Stories Staffordshire South Wales Scotland (.24) NATIONAL STORY Island of Coal (.31) gvs of children walking into cinema and leaving piece of coal at front door, children watching film in cinema and other children on stage answering questions on the coal industry, Lord Robens talking to children and presenting prize (2.52) STAFFORDSHIRE Mini-Mines (2.57) gvs of man creating scale models of colliery's (4.47) RETROSPECT Tunnelling-Yesterday Imperial War Museum Footage Crown Copyright Reserved (4.50) gvs of world war 1 fighting footage, men being transported to front in trucks, men going into trench's and digging more trench's and setting off explosive charges (8.06) SCOTLAND Tunnelling-Today (8.10) ext of Kinneil and Valleyfield collieries, miners drilling tunnel underneath sea bed to connect both mines and setting off explosives, press watch as tunnellers from both ends meet in middle (10.34) THE END MINING REVIEW (10.46)