Film Number

242

Title

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COAL MINER

Producer

Kineto/London & North Western Railway

Date

1910

Gauge

35mm S

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

6 mins 04 secs

Description

A miner leaves home for work and the film is subdivided as follows - The Pit Head; Locking the Lamps; Miners Descending; Coal Face; The Coal Shaft, 4 & 9 Tub Cages; The Pit's Mouth; Hoisting the waste; Belles of the Black Diamond Field; Female Industry; Loading Wooden Props; Sorting, Screening and Loading; Coal trains leaving; Back to Daylight; Pay Time; Light after Darkness. The final scenes show the miner returning home and a comfortable middle-class family enjoying the fruits of his labour - a coal fire.