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