Mining News Reels VINEGAR

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 1930

Complete Record: 100% mechanized mine of the Butler Consolidated Coal Company map of Pennsylvania, old factory with train going by, man walks into mine, man pokes at roof of mine shaft, men use punch cards, men take elevator down shaft. elevator POV shots, mine cart POV, men adjust mine cart tracks, men use giant drill on mine wall, men use machine to “cut” as mine dirt flows from walls(looks like a chain saw), man puts weird pipe into hole and checks out the scene, CU mans hands wrapping wire around dynamite?, CU man’s hands turning switch to blast dynamite, slow pan of rubble, weird/huge rubble remover car enters on mine path, shots of rubble on machine’s conveyor belt, man tests solidity of mine roof, machine breaks walls and they fall onto the conveyor belt, full car leaves and replaced with empty one, incredibly lit mine cart rubble travel, rocks poured by rotary dump-a great mechanism, shot of man operating the rotary dump, rocks on giant conveyor belt, coal pours down some sifting contraption, machine shakes coal to sort by size, men picking coal bits off conveyor belts at a rapid speed, some weird air conditioning contraption(huge), man operates some electrical switchboard, EXT shot of coal loaded on trucks, then loaded to train cars, coal samples tested in rudimentary laboratory, slow pan of men working in dark dirty repair shop, men pull chains that lower clothes?, empty running showers for men, first aid class, man wrapped in sling, pupils follow suit, men in white pose for camera