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Mining Review 2/5: A Pit Is Reborn - Gedling (1949)
 

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Mining Review 2nd Year No. 5
A Pit Is Reborn - Gedling
January 1949
35mm, black and white, 2 mins
 
DirectorMichael Orrom
Production CompanyData Film Productions
ProducerDonald Alexander
CameraCharles Smith

The modernisation of Gedling Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

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This fifth instalment in the occasional A Pit Is Reborn series looks at the ongoing modernisation of Gedling Colliery in Nottinghamshire, one of the deepest mines in the region.

The film concentrates on the way the pit has increased its output through the introduction of new technology at every stage, from cutting (using a Meco-Moore cutter-loader, as demonstrated in Mining Review 1st Year No. 1) to conveying the coal from the face to the sorting plant (weighing it along the way) to the sorting process.

Sorting still has to be carried out by hand, but instead of physically picking up the coal, it's now pushed into the correct chutes with the aid of rakes - the commentator compares this with a croupier sorting gambling chips at Monte Carlo.

Michael Brooke

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SEE ALSO
Mining Review 1/11: A Pit Is Reborn - Nantgarw (1948)
Mining Review 1/1: Cutter Loader (1947)
Mining Review 2/3: A Pit Is Reborn - Machrihanish (1948)
Mining Review 2/5: A Dim View (1949)
Mining Review 2/5: Push Button Pay (1949)
Mining Review 2/5: Talent Scout (1949)
Mining Review: 2nd Year (1948-49)