Miner

196619 min 7 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Robin Spry

Production: John Kemeny

Script: Robin SpryStrowan Robertson

Impressions of a hardrock miner's life, suitable for the classroom, filmed at the Falconbridge Nickel Mine at Sudbury, Ontario, and showing also the increasing use of nickel in today's space age. Much of what is shown was filmed in the dim world far underground where, "in a bubble of air in a solid mass of rock," the miner drills the ore face.

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  • Mining > MetalsMining CommunitiesOntarioPortraitsWork Issues

Credits


director
Robin Spry
writer
Robin Spry
producer
John Kemeny
photography
Thomas Vamos
editing
Michael McKennirey
commentary
Strowan Robertson
sound recording
Roger Hart
sound editing
Victor Merrill
music editing
Donald Douglas
re-recording
Ron Alexander
Roger Lamoureux