Keeping The Home Fires Burning (1926)
Dudley, Staffordshire (West Midlands). Title: KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING. Miners on strike discover and work little mines of their own. Panning shot over a sloping field, many small holes have been dug in it, miners and their ponies sit around them. Panning shot showing a man standing in one of the holes, he passes a bucket of dirt to another man who sieves it. There are little bonfires all over the field. High angled shot looking down into a small pit (about 10 feet deep). Two men sit in the bottom of it, one uses a pickaxe to chip at the pit walls. M, S of the man using the axe. M, S of a lad at the top of a pit using a pulley to lift buckets of dirt. The dirt is passed to another man to sieve. Various shots of dirt being lifted from the minipits, a horse and cart waits in the background to be loaded with coal. More shots of the temporary mining process. Many shots are same as those used earlier, looks like cuts, out takes. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPL
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