The Man Of The Week (1947)

Full title reads: “The Man Of The Week“. Parsonage Colliery, near Bolton, Lancashire. Joe Baksi, American heavyweight boxer, visits miners near Bolton at the beginning of their five day week. LS Coal miners, with Baksi and John Parsons among them walking down some steps as they come off duty. CU Baksi in mining kit with the grime of the pit on his face. CU a pithead winch working. MS Baksi, in clean clothes again, chatting with miners and signing autographs (nat sound). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Vi