Coal Face (1935)
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
- Date of release
- 1935-06-03
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 11m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Alberto Cavalcanti
Casting
- W.H. Auden — Commentator (voice)
- Montagu Slater — Commentator (voice)
Interesting facts
Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti.
Production
With a film score by Benjamin Britten and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden, the film largely reuses older footage from Tour of a British Coal Mine (1928), which was shot in Barnsley, Yorkshire.
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