Brown Coal To Briquettes

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Year Published: 1940

Creator: Frank Hurley

Complete Record: Victoria, Australia great fuel industry. Children in a classroom. A demonstration of how brown coal is made into briquettes. A press makes a coal brick, “the brick of fuel”. There is a tour of the briquette factory with children on a field trip. Shots of sifting coal into a giant spinning drum. Machines pounding coal into briquettes. A cartoon demonstration of this, has a sexual undertone. Shots of trains moving coal and men shoveling coal into a furnace. Ends with a family siting in front of a fire place.