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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}{{Infobox film
| name = Coal Face
| image =
| director = Alberto Cavalcanti
| writer = W.H. Auden
| starring =
| producer = John Grierson
| music = Benjamin Britten
| cinematography = Stuart Legg
| editing = William Coldstream
| studio = GPO Film Unit
| distributor =
| released = 1935
| runtime = 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,[2] the film gives a glimpse into the lives of a Scottish mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced.[3]]References1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Thesing|first1=William B.|title=Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film|date=2000|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=1-57003-352-8|page=120}}
2. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Aitken|editor1-last=Aitken|editor1-first=Ian|title=Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film|date=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-445-0|pages=237–238}}
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}} External links - {{IMDb title|0182912|Coal Face}}
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