Home Movie: 098386 - Part 1 of 2 (silent)

Description: Miners of the Buffalo Rouyn Mines searching for a site to begin excavation in Buffalo, New York circa 1927. Includes images of worker camps, workers digging holes and using pickaxes and early magnetometers or electronic probes.

The content of this film is in multiple files due to scanning issue.

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Subjects: 1920s, Extractive industries, Labor

Tags: workers camps; tents; worksites; machinery; equipment; dirt roads; log cabins; mining roads; "Buffalo Rouyn Mines Ltd Buffalo - NY" sign; men using pickaxes on rock slabs; "Copper Hills Mines Ltd" sign; man standing at bank of river; men digging hole with shovels; men using electrical equipment at job site; man hitting water with stick; smoking pipes; campsites; tents in the woods; rural cemeteries; log cabins; "Clericy" sign; rivers; rocks; control panels; antennas; magnetometers

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0331, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1927

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Geographical Location: USA; New York; Buffalo, New York; Clerisy, Québec

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 343