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Title: National Coal Board Collection Volume 1: Portrait of a Miner
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 2
Release Date: 28/09/2009
Actors: Various Artists
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 5 hours and 47 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: Bfi Video
Certificate: BBFC 15
Description: NATIONAL COAL BOARD COLLECTION VOLUME 1


PORTRAIT OF A MINER

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, and contains an extensive booklet featuring newly commissioned contributions from writer Lee Hall (Billy Elliot), and curators and specialists in industrial filmmaking.

Warning: King Coal contains light patterns which may be harmful to viewers susceptible to epileptic seizures

UK 1947-1978 black and white, and colour English language with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles 347 minutes 2 x DVD9 Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps) Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 Region 2 DVD

Disc One


* Mining Review 1st Year No.1 - Cutter Loader Five Day Week The Miner's Song (1947, B/W, 8 mins)
* King Coal (1948, colour, 3 mins)
* Nines Was Standing (1950,, B/W, 18 mins)
* Miners Health Centre (1948, B/W, 2 mins)
* Mining Review 2nd Year No 10 - Replanning A Coalfield (1949, B/W, 10 mins)
* Mining Review 2nd Year No 12 - Holiday Camp Beside The Sea Up River Pitmen's Derby (1949, B/W, 10 mins)
* Plan For Coal (1952, B/W, 19 mins)
* The Shovel (1953, B/W, 17 mins)
* 'Time Out' from Mining Review 7th Year No.8 (1954, B/W, 3 mins)
* 'Balletomines' from Mining Review 7th Year No.12 (1954, B/W, 3 mins)
* 'Hungarians in Britain' from Mining Review 10th Year No.8 (1957, B/W, 4 mins)
* New Power In Their Hands (1959, B/W, 21 mins)

Mining Review 13th Year No 4 - The Art Of Mining Speaking Through Coal Mounted Minors Record Pit (1959, B/W, 10 mins) * 'Stormy Genius' from Mining Review 13th Year No.8 (1960, B/W, 2 mins)
* Arthur Clears the Air (1961, colour, 30 mins)
* 'Whitehaven Whippets' from mining Review 15th Year No.7 (1962, B/W, 3 mins)
* Mining Review 16th Year No 6 - A Story From South Wales (1963, B/W, 10 mins)

Disc Two


* Songs of The Coalfields (1964, B/W, 14 mins)
* Big Job (1965, colour, 2 mins)
* Portrait of a Miner (1966, B/W, 28 mins)

Nobody's Face (1966, B/W, 19 mins) * The First Adventures of 'Thud And Blunder' (1964, colour, 3 mins)

Mining Review 20th Year No 9 Marilyn Out Of Darkness North Star (1967, B/W, 10 mins) * Hands, Knees and Bumps A Daisy (1969, colour, 4 mins)
* Mining Review 22nd Year No 5 She (1969, B/W, 10 mins)
* What About That Job? (Case Studies For Management No 1) (1970, B/W, 5 mins)
* The Bother Breeder (Case Studies For Management No 4) (1970, B/W, 5 mins)
* Man Failure (1971, colour, 17 mins)
* I'll See You (Too Late Now No 2) (1976, colour, 2 mins)
* A Beautiful Memory (Too Late Now No 3) (1976, colour, 2 mins)
* You Pick the Moment (Too Late Now No 4) (1976, colour, 2 mins)
* Miners (1976, colour, 24 mins)
* Review 32nd Year No 1 - Band Fever (1978, colour, 10 mins)
* 40 Years On (1978, colour and B/W, 19 mins)

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