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“BITUMINOUS COAL” 1928 EASTMAN EDUCATIONAL FILM PITTSBURG COALFIELD MINES& MINING (SILENT) 18454

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1928 silent educational short produced by Eastman Classroom Films depicts operations at a coal mine near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, showing minecarts, simple tools, and harsh working conditions (TRT 14:55). Opening titles (0:10). Coal miners riding in a mining car exit the tunnel of a coal mine stenciled, “Be Careful Today.” The men’s faces are grim as they pass by, wearing headlamps and hats (0:14). The miners climb out of the mining car (0:29). A line of miners hand in buckets and headlamps at a small window with instructions posted on either side (0:38). A map of the Midwestern United States. A circle encompasses the borders between Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. A closer look pinpoints Pittsburgh. A black mass indicates coal country (0:48). A wide shot of a minecart loaded with men, entering a coal mine. A POV closeup entering the darkened mining tunnel. Intertitle: “Entering a Mining Shaft” (1:23). Workers march into an elevator in single file, as a man counts them, holding two others back. The elevator descends (1:55). A large mine shaft elevator pulley system spins, winding cable (2:22). Down the elevator. A man waves to an approaching minecart. A crew of men march in under small, fluttering United States flags (2:35). POV riding a minecart. The cart pauses at an intersection, allowing for another cart, piled high with chunks of coal, to pass (2:54). A man operates a large, motorized chainsaw, which cuts into a wall of coal. A team of two men operate a hand-cranked drill (3:42). Dynamite is inserted into the drilled hole. A man with a lamp and a pickaxe inspects the wall (4:30). The fuse is lit. The wall explodes (5:17). Title: “Air in a mine is kept pure and clean.” (5:34). A ventilation fan spins near a sign: “Danger, Keep Out.” A sprinkler car on the mining rail tracks sprays the walls of the mine down with water (5:41). Men shoveling and lifting large chunks of coal into a cart. A parade of carts filled with coal (6:08). An exterior shot shows the ascent of a cart of coal up an elevator shaft and into a silo (7:16). Older workers sort coal on a conveyor belt (7:35). A mechanical sorting machine filters the coal by size. Large pieces continue down a conveyor belt and into railroad cars (7:46). Title: “About half the coal is used for making steam” (8:22). A steam locomotive carries over 20 carts filled with coal along a railroad track near a riverbed (8:25). Title: “Making coke from coal” and another procession of railcars (8:49). The following sequence depicts the process by which fuel is heated and distilled into fuel. A machine rotates. More conveyor belts (9:21). Finely ground coal is ground and washed with water, then rushes uphill on another conveyor, which passes a man in a suit, bowtie, and hat for scale (9:55). Title: “Beehive coke ovens” and an elevated exterior shot of smoke pouring from large ovens as workers walk by below, and a large cart drives on rooftop tracks (10:23). The finished product is raked out of a stone oven. A man with a trowel seals up an archway on the side of the massive oven (10:48). Title: “Modern retort coke ovens” and a wide shot of the same. Four large vessels head towards the camera on rails. “Coal is changed to coke in twelve hours” (11:17). A closeup of the retort ovens’ semi-automated process (12:14). A glowing hot slab of coke is dumped into a hopper car, bursting into flames on contact. The camera traces the car’s path to a cloud of smoke rising into the air (13:03). The finished product is dumped into a large pile by men operating large levers (14:12). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." 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