| Panning for gold | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1048 |
| Catalog #: | 459515 | |
| Clip Number: | 459515-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 510-2.1 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | California | |
| Year Shot: | ||
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY/MINING: Gold | |
| Description: | CU wooden trough used by early gold miners to sift through soil and rocks on a creek bed. Shovel is moving debris through, and a hand reaches down to throw out a rock. 01:00:15 CU old pan, forty-niner panning for gold, swirling the water around. He picks out a rock or two and throws them away 01:00:34 nice MS gold miner leading burro against blue sky. The scene says Gold Rush 01:00:41 CU gold collecting in pan with water swirling 01:00:52 CU miner squatting down by water (shot is dark and brief); CU pan with silt in bottom, hands dipping it into water to pan for gold by washing the ore to the bottom 01:01:20 CU pan full of debris from river bed; CU gold in pan; old-fashioned knife picking out grains of gold from bottom of pan 01:01:36 more panning 01:01:49 CU water, boot of miner comes into frame and his hand reaches in, picking out a gold nugget (numerous takes) 01:02:39 XCU fingers with small gold nugget picked from creek bed 01:02:44 more panning | |
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