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Coal Face is a British film of genre Documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti with Montagu Slater

Coal Face (1935)

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Length 11minutes
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Rating62% 3.1423153.1423153.1423153.1423153.142315

Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden, the film gives a glimpse into the lives of a Welsh mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced.

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Montagu Slater

(Commentator)
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