Coal Crisis Grips Industry (1947)

Full title reads: “1,600 pits are yours ... but - Coal Crisis Grips Industry“. LS of pit head. Pan to show chimney. CU of output target board on mine building. MS still pithead wheel. CU NCB flag. MS Mines Minister Emanuel Shinwell (Manny) making his speech when he handed over the mines to the National Coal Board. Clement Attlee sitting on the left of Mr Shinwell. Lord Hyndley chairman of the NCB sits on the right. MS Members of the cabinet listening. Mr Ernest Bevin included. CU of Bevin arms folded head resting on chest looks very tired. Others listening include Sir Stafford Cripps Herbert Morrison, (Lord Privy Seal), and Chuter Ede. LS General view of Blackburn, Lancashire showing the mass of factories with their tall chimneys idle. CU a mill chimney sends out no smoke. CU MS Various shots of idle looms and machinery at the Roe Lea Mills Blackburn. CU. a half finished roll of cloth on a loom. (The looms are silent because there is not enough coal to power them). MS Raymond Duckworth, head of