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Mining Review 13/4: Record Pit (1959)

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Mining Review 13th Year No. 4: Record Pit
December 1954
35mm, black and white, 2 mins

Production Company	Data Film Productions
Sponsor	National Coal Board

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British shaft sinking records are shattered at Lancashire's Parkside Colliery.

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This film makes full use of cinematic techniques - heightened music, stark camera angles and atmospheric lighting - to highlight the drama inherent in mining. This was not entirely an artistic decision: lowlevel lighting was a practical necessity in the cramped circumstances of filming underground.

Ros Cranston

*This film is included in the BFI DVD compilation 'Portrait of a Miner: The National Coal Board Collection Volume 1'.

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	SEE ALSO

	Mining Review 13/4: Mounted Minors (1959)
	Mining Review 13/4: Speaking Through Coal (1959)
	Mining Review 13/4: The Art of Mining (1959)
	Mining Review: 13th Year (1959-60)