A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
(Un día en la vida de una mina de carbón)
(Gran Bretaña, 1910) [B/N, 10 m. Muda, con rótulos en inglés].
Género: Documental, Cortometraje, Noticias patrocinadas.
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Productora: Kineto Production Company.
Sponsor: “London & North Western Railway”.
Sinopsis: Documental patrocinado que muestra una jornada de trabajo en una mina de carbón británica de comienzos del siglo XX.
Cortometraje completo extraído de Early cinema. Primitives and Pioneers (1895-1910). Hilo DXC.
A miner leaves his cottage in the morning, his family waving goodbye. The pit head; locking the lamps. The miners enter a lift and descend to the pits. At the coalface, miners hack at the coal with pickaxes, while other men and boys load the coal into trolleys. The coal is hoisted to the pit's mouth, where men, women and boys commence unloading. The waste is hoisted to the pit's mouth; a group of women load wooden props and sort, screen and load the coal into trucks. The coal trains leave the pit. The miners return to the pit head, and receive their pay. The miner returns home after work. A middle-class family sit around an open fire upon which a maid places more coal (Screenonline).
This fascinating film is probably one of the first documentaries ever made, showing us the real work of real turn-of-the-century coalminers. There are many unforgetable images here of men being squeezed like sardines into tiny elevators, men working in dark, cavelike corridors hundreds of feet underneath the ground and looking like they never get a chance to stand upright all day, men getting paid a small handful of coins for their labors. But what's really striking is the women. Yes, there are dozens of women in this mine doing such "women's work" as loading huge logs onto handcarts, hunching over a conveyor belt sorting coal, and standing on top of coal hoppers poking the coal with pitchforks. The classist ending will disgust you, or you have a heart of stone, I'll warrant. A fascinating historical document of hard, dirty labor (KinoVideo).
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