BFI Screenonline: Mining Review: The 1940s/1950s
It's the raw stuff of documentary - the image of life and truth in a pin-sized magazine story. These brief images of life and truth were seen by large audiences; at its peak in the 1950s, the NCB claimed that Mining Review was shown in half the cinemas in the country - about 800 cinemas - and seen by millions of people. Ros Cranston