How Green Was My Valley

Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film. A Book to Film Club screening

This screening will include an introduction and a small programme of short films exploring the history of coal mining in Britain and lending a bit of Welsh colour to John Ford's black and white classic, with musical accompaniment by Harry Hayes.

Short Film Programme: The Greatest Menace we have Ever Known (2 mins), Happy Result (1 min), People Will Always Need Coal (1 min), Land of Song (5 mins).

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change.

At the dawn of the 20th century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

Meanwhile, Huw's eldest sister, Angharad, pines for the new village preacher, Mr. Gruffydd.

'Captures an idyll of youth that has been lost to the corrosive practices of modern business' - Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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