FILM OF MINE
MIRRORS USED TO FOCUS LIGHT LONDON .April 6. Film cameras and special lighting were lowered half a mile into the earth at Birch Coppice Colliery, near Tamworth. A film w r as “shot” of the actual process of coal mining. Warwickshire miners, stripped to the waist, sweat trickling in grimed rivulets down face and chest, are the heroes of the story.
The director, Mr. S. B. Holmes, crouched under a four-foot arch of coal. He and his four assistants, black as the miners, worked feverishly.
The lighting is a triumph for BriU ish experts. Owing to the safety restrictions, the lights are magnified by strong mirrors and focused by reflectors on to the scene to be photographed. Stone dust is scattered round to prevent an explosion.
The picture—a Gaumont-British instructional film —is to .show every process in the mine.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 99, 3 May 1935, Page 5
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