How green was my valley
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Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1941 Twentieth Century-Fox feature film, "How Green Was My Valley", based on the Richard Llewellyn novel. This film personifies, in the life of Hugh Morgan, the hardships of Welsh cola miners. As a youth, Hugh gives up the opportunity for a college education to work with his father and brothers as a miner. Approaching middle age, Hugh ponders the meaning of his life as he prepares to leave his valley. His brothers had emigrated following an unsuccessful strike; his father was killed in a mine accident; and his once green, happy valley has been destroyed by the mine's advancing slag heaps., Through excerpts from the feature production, this film dramatizes labor's plight in the coal-mining areas of Wales during the nineteenth century. Shows a boy's struggle to get a formal education and his decision to join his father and brothers in the mines, on which the entire community is dependent.
Young Huw Morgan is the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan (Donald Crisp) His childhood is idyllic, the town, not yet overrun with mining spoil, is beautiful. Huw is smitten on meeting Bronwyn (Anna Lee), a girl engaged to be married to his oldest brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and his sister Angharad keeps house with their mother. Trouble begins when the mine owner decreases wages, and the miners strike in protest.
Young Huw Morgan is the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan (Donald Crisp) His childhood is idyllic, the town, not yet overrun with mining spoil, is beautiful. Huw is smitten on meeting Bronwyn (Anna Lee), a girl engaged to be married to his oldest brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and his sister Angharad keeps house with their mother. Trouble begins when the mine owner decreases wages, and the miners strike in protest.
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, Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his childhood in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the close knit Morgans, and his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
, Through excerpts from the feature production, this film dramatizes labor's plight in the coal-mining areas of Wales during the nineteenth century. Shows a boy's struggle to get a formal education and his decision to join his father and brothers in the mines, on which the entire community is dependent., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
, Through excerpts from the feature production, this film dramatizes labor's plight in the coal-mining areas of Wales during the nineteenth century. Shows a boy's struggle to get a formal education and his decision to join his father and brothers in the mines, on which the entire community is dependent., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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