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Mining News, 1960's - Film 33757

158 views · Published 13 January 2015 · 8:53 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: HuntleyFilmArchives · 2015 · Education

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Computers.  Inside of a computers.  Woman puts computer reel into computer.  Montage of men receiving wage packets in various situations.  Wages office.  Wage slip.  Close up of wage slip dissolving into a computer punch card which has the same information on it.  Computer punch cards slotted into computer so an electronic record can be made on a computer tape.  Woman takes computer reel and puts it on rack with others - 'It's good-bye to the old days of manilla folders in dusty store rooms' as we see a woman searching for the file she wants.  Long paper printout.  Computer room of the N.C.B.
Nottinghamshire.  One year old baby enjoying himself and smiling whilst taking a bath in the kitchen sink.  Soap suds.  Reversing a coal wagon into a soap works.  Tipping coal.  Making soap in big open vats.  Glycerine the bi-product.  Tchnician checking dials.  Soap making process.  Hand sorting from conveyor belt.  Machine wrapping soap.  Woman in soapy bath looking self conscious.  Woman drying her self in shower.  Truck driving to colliery.  Dirty happy miners leave shift.  In the pit head baths, they wash.  One man scrubs back of another.
James Anderton receives a medal.  Invented Anderton shearer loader cutting machine which we see in operation possibly in the St. Helens area - with water spraying to keep down dust.  In a board meeting.  Modifications to the machine to enable it to cut more large coal.  Surface shifting of pile of coal.  Cutting machine by remote control without a man on the coal face.

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