Eastern Eye: A Nova Scotia Filmography ~ 1899-1973

Soldiers help coal crisis - Cape Breton, N.S. 

Producing Agency:   Associated Screen News

Production Date:   1940s

Series:   Canada Communique #4

Synopsis – staged scenes showing three soldiers leaving their military duties to take up coal mining in Cape Breton, followed by documentary scenes of mining coal including loading coal into railcars and finally onto a freighter.

Repository:   National Film Board of Canada, Stock Shot Library

Subjects:
Soldiers help coal crisis, Cape Breton, N.S.
World War II, 1939 1945 - Civilian work
Soldiers

Genre:
Newsreels

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