Coal Face
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| Coal Face | |
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| Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| Written by | W.H. Auden |
| Produced by | John Grierson |
| Cinematography | Stuart Legg |
| Edited by | William Coldstream |
| Music by | Benjamin Britten |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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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]
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External links
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- Coal Face at the BFI's Screenonline
Categories:
- 1935 films
- 1935 short documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Films set in Wales
- Films directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
- Documentary films about mining
- British black-and-white films
- British short documentary films
- GPO Film Unit films
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s British films
- English-language short documentary films
- Works by W. H. Auden
- Films scored by Benjamin Britten
- British documentary film stubs