Rutile Mining

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2109

Date Released

3 Nov 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fashion
2. 2Rutile Mining
3. 3Neck Breakers
4. 4Mini-Royal Tour

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rutile Mining. DESCRIPTION: There’s more the the sun-drenched beaches of Australia than swimming and sun bathing. The sand is the world’s richest source of rutile, raw material for the space-age metal, titanium. SHOTLIST: GV surf rolls in onto beach. LS man fishing on beach. LS rutile mine. MLS ditto. MS dredger at work. MS operator of ditto. 2 shots separation system of sand and water. 1 shots waste shooting out of pipe. 2 shots electric charges. Various shots of sand and mineral separation process. MS man fills bag with sand. CU ditto. GV area of waste sand. MS bulldozer. MCU sand being pushed by ditto. GV vegetation growing in sand.

Keywords

Vehicles; Environment; Industry and manufacture; Mining

Locations

Australia

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

95312

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

107

Story extras:

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