Film Number |
5206 |
Title |
THE GRANITE QUARRY |
Producer |
Sam Hanna |
Date |
*1943/49 |
Gauge |
16mm |
Colour |
b/w & colour |
Sound |
mute |
Running Time |
22 mins 20 secs |
Description |
Depicts the work of a granite quarry, from extraction to the creation of granite blocks. After shots of a village and neighbouring allotments, there is footage of an excavator at work in the quarry. A man scales and descends a rock face using a rope, and workers pack dynamite into the rock and detonate it. Stone is carried away on a cable crane and emptied into a sorting machine. A variety of tools are used to split rocks into workable sizes and then to dress them into standard-sized blocks. The film ends with black and white footage of workmen laying tarmacadam on Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. |
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