The National Coal Board (NCB) Film Unit is one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units. The following is a film informing on how a newcomer may start on production work in the pits at that time. It follows a group of new miners as they have gone through three to four months of preliminary production work under the supervision of a skilled miner. The responsibilities of supervisors in the close personal supervision are explained. Title - Sense of Supervision...

The National Coal Board (NCB) Film Unit is one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units. The following is a film informing on how a newcomer may start on production work in the pits at that time. It follows a group of new miners as they have gone through three to four months of preliminary production work under the supervision of a skilled miner. The responsibilities of supervisors in the close personal supervision are explained. Title - Sense of Supervision A group of new miners are getting prepared and trained for their job, as an experienced miner shows them the correct equipment to wear and how to use it. A narrator explains that it hasn't always been like that. A group of older miners are shown sitting at tables. Two of them explain what they had to go through when they started work at the pit. They describe how lonely, under trained and scared they were as they were left to do their job alone with only a few minutes guidance. A leader tells the miners that they are now part of a new system; they will help train and pass on what they have learned to new miners using close supervision. Using footage in a coal pit of men being carefully watched and trained on the job, the narrator explains the importance of training. It is compared with learning to fly a plane, as footage of two men take off to fly. Back in the coal pit, the new miners have spent the correct amount of time in training have now been left to work on their own. Title - Written and Directed by Robin Carrothers Photographed by Ralph Larrabeiti Edited by Kitty Wood Produced by Francis Gysin Title - The End Made by N.C.B. Film Unit 1964 Recorded on RCA at Pathe Studios