How green was my valley

Duration: 0:33:00

Genre: Drama | Family

Year Published: 1941

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

Complete Record: , 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.