| COAL MINING The process of coal mining underground. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 9188 |
| Catalog #: | 35971 | |
| Clip Number: | 35971-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4633 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:31:52 - 01:34:32 | |
| Location: | Unknown | |
| Year Shot: | 1973 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY/MINING: Coal | |
| Description: | COAL MINING The process of coal mining underground. Excellent b/w footage (MSs & CUs) of miners at work inside the coal mine. Coal miners wearing helmets with lights on underground. MS a few miners beside stack of sandbags; one has detonator and wire. CUs miner holding detonator. MLS miner standing in mine tunnel beside stack of sandbags, winding up long wire. MCU 3 miners talking, joking around as they wait for the 'all clear'. Various MSs miners stooping under the low ceiling held up by beams; miners using pickaxes to chip away at and split apart the coal face, then picking up big chunks of coal and shovelling smaller bits, putting it all on a conveyor belt at ground level. CU coal chunks falling off the end of one conveyor belt and landing on another one at a right angle. MS conveyor belt moving the coal away into tunnel. MSs/CUs miners setting up more beams to brace up the ceililng. MS more coal landing on conveyor belt. | |
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