Coal Face
| Coal Face | |
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| Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| Written by | W.H. Auden |
| Produced by | John Grierson |
| Cinematography | Stuart Legg |
| Edited by | William Coldstream |
| Music by | Benjamin Britten |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden, the film gives a glimpse into the lives of a Yorkshire mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced. The film largely reuses older footage from Tour of a British Coal Mine (1928), which was shot in Barnsley, Yorkshire.