1934--Work on Mount Rushmore resumed--outtakes
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Shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum working on Mount Rushmore. Borglum is shown yelling orders to his crew, with them responding in unison. Various blasting techniques remove rock from the mountain. Also shows reporters Leslie Hull and Miss Roberts interviewing Borglum in his studio with a model of Mount Rushmore in the background. Includes multiple shots of the completed George Washington portion of the monument. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/
Complete Record: Shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum working on Mount Rushmore. Borglum is shown yelling orders to his crew, with them responding in unison. Various blasting techniques remove rock from the mountain. Also shows reporters Leslie Hull and Miss Roberts interviewing Borglum in his studio with a model of Mount Rushmore in the background. Includes multiple shots of the completed George Washington portion of the monument. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/
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your Anderson we're down around the nose and check up all the points on the underside of the noodle and be very careful about the left [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] get a better grip if you didn't know they'd get right in there now you turn to be back I walk pins if we're down under the wig here we're working on the week now and check upper loge points out of the week where the year will be just above the color line you better go down now paying your vector price I'll be down there within a few minutes and Anderson you go down around them to the mold and check up your place down the front back to me we're at down now talking about food points on the way you're just exactly how this hair turns around the forehead and you have the boys check over all those foot what try it again [Music] boy wasn't it walk you ready [Music] today I think I'm missing off to go down I mean paid October down and recheck this entire a week I'm not satisfied with how it turns end the day it comes against the color you put on down that pain you've got your burgers and your card in your pocket to check that over and yes I want those points very careful examine and report back to me from Jamaica [Music] [Applause] [Music] models for these models are made for the purpose of measurement and enlargement for the mountain and they made the convenient dimension have one inch to the foot in other words these models are increased from seventeen hundred and twenty eight times mr.brother we expect to finish it sufficiently by 1935 in order to allow the president to unveil the inscriptions may require an extra gear and the finishing of the big panel on the west-world I am however allowing next to three inches on all the features to allow for the wear and tear of the elements which amounts to an inch in 100,000 years so the work will not actually be finished as I want it for another three hundred thousand years and then by the way I should like to have you all here with me to unveil it and I hope the shades of Washington Jefferson Lincoln and receive it
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