Coal Face

Coal Face
Opening title card
Directed byAlberto Cavalcanti
Written byW.H. Auden
Produced byJohn Grierson
CinematographyStuart Legg
Edited byWilliam Coldstream
Music byBenjamin Britten
Production
company
Release date
  • 1935 (1935)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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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