Coal Face
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Coal Face | |
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Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
Produced by | John Grierson |
Written by | W.H. Auden |
Music by | Benjamin Britten |
Cinematography | Stuart Legg |
Edited by | William Coldstream |
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Release dates
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1935 |
Running time
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11 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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 Welsh mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced.[3]
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Coal Face at IMDb
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- Use dmy dates from May 2016
- Use British English from May 2016
- English-language films
- 1935 films
- 1930s documentary films
- British films
- British 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
- Short documentary films
- British short films
- British documentary film stubs