Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti Written by W.H. Auden Produced by John Grierson Cinematography Stuart Legg Edited by William Coldstream Music by Benjamin Britten Production company GPO Film Unit Release date 1935 Running time 11 minutes Country United Kingdom
Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten[1] 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.
