Amber Films, 10 mins, 1983

This ten minute discussion ‘trigger tape’ from the build-up to the 1984 Miners’ Strike combines footage of the 100th Durham Miners’ Gala, held in 1983, with extracts from an NUM weekend school that came together to discuss the issues that were facing the union and the mining communities. The video was a forerunner of the celebrated Miners’ Campaign Tapes that were developed by the Film Workshop Movement during the strike.