Cavalcanti, Coal face (1935)

Coal Face (1935 film).

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Written by W.H. Auden
Produced by John Grierson
Cinematography Stuart Legg
Edited by William Coldstream
Music by Benjamin Britten
Production
company
GPO Film Unit
Release date 1935
Running time 11 minutes
Country United Kingdom

Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten[1] and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden, the film gives a glimpse into the lives of a Yorkshire mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced. The film largely reuses older footage from Tour of a British Coal Mine (1928), which was shot in Barnsley, Yorkshire.