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“ ANTHRACITE COAL ” SILENT 1920s PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINE & MINING EDUCATIONAL FILM XD45714

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This black and white 1920s silent film, possibly an Eastman classroom film, depicts the operations of the “Mammoth Slope” anthracite coal mine in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, showing a day in the life of an average coal miner (TRT 12:22). Opening title card: “Anthracite Coal” (0:08). Intertitle: “The Miners Go To Work.” A crowd of men in caps and coats walk across a bridge carrying pails (0:10). A man standing at a doorway greets coal miners as they arrive for work. A man sets down a pail and watering can, then removes his coat. A pulley system carries away his clothing, which is exchanged for a work uniform (0:17). The miner, William Betz, removes an identification tag from a board, and repositions a peg to “clock in” (0:54). In an open-air workshop, men hammer on anvils, with furnaces in the background. Bill picks up a pick axe (1:00). A man approaches a shed with tin siding labeled, “Dynamite.” A crate is presented to him (1:12). A line of miners pick up oil-wick lamps from a stockroom window (1:24). A crew of miners assemble. A team waits for a mining car. A car pulled by cables, loaded with several men, enters a mine shaft, labeled “Mammoth Slope” (1:34). POV the descending cable car (2:16). Intertitle: “Anthracite coal is found in folded layers” (2:23). An illustration shows multiple sloped mineshafts, running parallel to one another (2:30). Two miners with headlamps prod a drill into a wall carved with diagonal lines (2:39). “Heavy timers are used to make mines safe.” A wide shot of massive piles of wooden logs. A timber mill cuts logs down to size, and a mining car carries a load of timber away (2:43). POV the mining car entering a darkened tunnel, and traveling through a narrow pathway (3:15). “Testing for gas and loose rock before blasting” (3:34). A miner with a Davy lamp checks for firedamp flammable gas and examines a wall marked for blasting (3:42). Drilling a hole for dynamite blasting (4:09). Inserting explosives (4:21). “After the blast.” A scene of rubble is examined (4:53). A mining car carrying tools is filled with the excavated rock, then pushed away and dumped (5:30). “Mining in close quarters.” Two men shovel debris into a chute. A white mule pulls a minecart into position to receive a load of rubble. The mule carries the cart of rocks away (6:20). Closeup on a large chunk of coal. A train of mining cars, led by an overhead cable, barrels into darkness (7:33). POV the mine ride, revealing crude walls lined with timber. A light at the end of the tunnel (7:46). Emerging into daylight (8:03). “At the breaker.” A cart ascends rapidly up a chain-towed incline to the top of a silo, then races down again, transporting raw coal (8:11). Men rapidly sort the coal on a conveyor belt. Vibrating chutes direct the rocks on their way (9:07). “More culm than coal is taken from the mines.” A worker sorts large rocks out of the coal supply. “More water than coal is taken from the mines.” An elevator rises out of a well, then sprays a forceful stream of water (9:30). Sorting coal by hand (10:26). A mechanical conveyor belt filters the lumps of coal and sprays them with water for cleaning (10:35). Rocks empty from three chutes and into three hopper cars marked, “Nut, Stove, Egg” (10:51). A locomotive engine arrives alongside the hopper cars. Carrying away the train cars of coal (11:12). “The miner’s day is done” (11:43). Men exit the mine, crowded onto a minecart (11:50). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com