Coal Face
1935 British film
- 1935 (1935)
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Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten[1] and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden,[2] the film gives a glimpse into the lives of a Yorkshire mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced. The film largely reuses older footage from Tour of a British Coal Mine (1928), which was shot in Barnsley, Yorkshire.[3]
References
- ^ White, Eric Walter (1970). Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas. University of California Press. pp. 23–24. ISBN 0-520-01679-3.
- ^ Thesing, William B. (2000). Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film. University of South Carolina Press. p. 120. ISBN 1-57003-352-8.
- ^ Aitken (2006). Aitken, Ian (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-1-57958-445-0.
External links
- Coal Face at IMDb
- Coal Face at the BFI's Screenonline
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Films directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
- Yvette (1928)
- Captain Fracasse (1929)
- The Devil's Holiday (1931)
- Coralie and Company (1934)
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- Champagne Charlie (1944)
- Dead of Night (1945)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
- They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
- The First Gentleman (1948)
- For Them That Trespass (1949)
- Song of the Sea (1952)
- Rien que les heures (1926)
- Coal Face (1935)
- Night Mail (1936)
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