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BFI synopsis: a look at the early stages at Britain’s biggest open-cast site
Their Majesties in Yorkshire coalmining areas, talk to schoolchildren, speaking to group of miners at Wentworth, watch mechanical excavator at work on open-cast mine before saying their farewells.
BFI synopsis: Radio telephone system at an open-cast mine, Abergavenny.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mechanical Innovations for Industry. DESCRIPTION: A 90 Brake-horse-power Diesel provides the motive power for a novel form of transport. A single rail guides the train which runs on an...
The British steel industry in action. Commencing with open cast mining of iron ore, shows each stage of the main manufacturing processes that are required to produce steel for industry as sheet, rod, billet,...
BFI synopsis: open-cast mining summarised from start to restoration of land in Northumbria NCB Commentary - Bigger and faster machines are the keys to the striking increases in production which have been...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Diary - Queen in Scotland. DESCRIPTION: One of the Queen’s engagements in Scotland was to open Britain’s first Lurgi plant for producing gas from low-quality coal. The plant...
Identifies some of the geological complexities in coalfields and explains their origins. Illustrates how, as a consequence of changes in mining practices, more information is now needed about the geology of...
Looks at the role of the EEC, the World Bank, and multinational mining companies in the destruction of the Amazon forest and how it is related to Brazil’s national debt? Filmed over four years at Sossego,...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: General Templer Sees for Himself. DESCRIPTION: General Templer, High Commissioner in Malaya, included a visit to a tin mine in the State of Perak as part of his policy of seeing for...
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