Dans les mines d’Europe
Document date: [1954]Identity Statement
1 digitised film
Alonso Fernandez, Juan
Content and Structure
Film takes you down into coal pits to reveal the nature of the work, the problems of production, and into the homes and lives of the miners. Photographed in Italy, Belgium, Germany and Scotland.
Genre
Documentary
Credits
Production Country: France
Film Production Company: John Ferno Production
Commissioning Institution: Mutual Security Agency
Director: John Ferno
Producer: John Ferno
Script: Arthur Calder-Marshall
Cinematography: Nelo Risi / Budge Cooper
Film Editing: Unknown
Music: Cedric Thorpe Davie
Technical Information
Original Film Format: 16 mm
Duration: 40 minutes / 19 minutes
Colour: Colour
European Cooperation, Marshall Plan, Labour Migration, Coal Mining
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French
Video
Allied Materials
National Archives, Washington, DC
The film was digitised from the copy located at the National Archives, Washington, DC. Digital reproduction of the film is available online at: " target="_blank"> Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), Paris (2019)
Fritsche, Maria: The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans. A Captivated Audience?, London : Bloomsbury 2018.
Fritsche, Maria: Das Schiff und der Strom – Subtiles Werben für Europa in den Marshallplan-Filmen, in: Clemens, Gabriele (ed.) : Werben für Europa. Die mediale Konstruktion europäischer Identität durch Europafilme, Paderborn : Schöningh 2016, pp. 471-488.
Bruch, Anne; Clemens, Gabriele ; Goergen, Jeanpaul & Tode, Thomas: « Cooperation means prosperity » – Das Werben für die Integration Europas in den Marshallplan-Filmen, in: Clemens, Gabriele (ed.): Werben für Europa. Die mediale Konstruktion europäischer Identität durch Europafilme, Paderborn: Schöningh 2016, pp. 191-226.
Notes
Other versions of the film in other languages which are not part of this collection are: Minatori d’Europa (Italian)
The Miner’s Window (English)