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Title: CONSTRUCTION OF COAL MINE, 1968

Reference number: 4093

Date: 1968

Sponsor: Union Carbide?

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.54 mins

Description: Documents the construction of a coal mine.

This mine owned and operated by Union Carbide Mining and Metals Division. Completion date September, 1968. 400 full time employees. Facilities include supply shop, supply dock, parking lot, office, fan, bath house, shaft and personnel elevator, substation, dock facilities, storage silo on route 35, overland belt to river, coal crushing, coal storage silo, coal screens, slope hoist for supplies and coal incline belt. [information taken from information board on film whilst viewing]

Shotlist: shot of men in office eating from boxes of cream cakes (0.33) cranes in operation, shots of cargo being loaded on ship named 'Alberta', steel structures, wooden crates (2.13) brief shot ferry crossing Forth River, Forth Road Bridge spanning river in background (2.19) gvs docks, cargo being loaded into hold (3.16) ferry boat on Forth (3.22) cleared woodland area with construction work starting, digger in view (4.09) m/s men walking to truck, sign marked 'Cable Belt Dock' (4.23) construction worker on ladder fells tree, shot of paddle boat through the trees (4.56) gvs construction work, caterpillar truck flattening soil, crane delivering metal piping and equipment , c/u workers' faces (7.11) shot of building materials laid out in field (7.44) gvs footbridge, construction work begins on foundations (9.42) gvs slightly flooded building site (11.03) gvs men at work (11.21) information signboard for mine (see also additional information) (11.41) [all footage after this point faded to magenta] gvs l/s supply line construction work on hillsides, gvs construction work (13.57) c/u mining equipment (conveyor belts for coal?) (14.09) gvs construction of long supply lines (15.20) workmen tighten and twist wire rope (15.37) gvs l/s supply line (16.05) conveyor belt is rolled out (16.54)