At The Coal Face - The Cumberland Story / Rhondda & Wye

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With miners and management as actors, The Cumberland Story, directed by Humphrey Jennings, is a true account of the modernisation of the mines in the 1940s. It includes a dramatic reconstruction of the Ladypit disaster of 1837, when callous mine-owners neglected safety and 36 men died as workings beneath the Irish Sea were flooded. Rhondda and Wye explores the famous Welsh valleys and contrasts the development of the Rhondda's collieries with the pastoral scenes of the farmlands and plains of the Wye Valley.

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Article - "A Useful Piece of Equipment: The Reminiscences of Humphrey Jennings’ Assistant Director, Joe Mendoza" by Joe Mendoza
Friday 16th November 2007

Dora Wright was our ‘ace’ Production Manager. She’d worked with Alexander Korda before he buzzed off to the States. She said, “Humphrey’s going to make the National Gallery film and he wants you to be his assistant. He says he knows nothing about music and you know a...  View article in full

Article - "Only Connect: some aspects of the work of Humphrey Jennings" by Lindsay Anderson
Friday 4th January 2008

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It is difficult to write anything but personally about the films of Humphrey Jennings. This is not of course to say that a full and documented account of his work in the cinema would not be of the greatest interest: anyone who undertook such a study would certa...  View article in full

Article - "Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950" by Michael Brooke
Saturday 12th April 2008

"Doubtless, were we a rational race, the spectacle of our present position would overwhelm us. But then we've always, thank heaven, remained deaf to appeals to reason, convinced that the experts are invariably wrong." So says the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster during Hu...  View article in full

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