Title:COAL MINING AND MISCELLANEOUS KRUPP SEQUENCES [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 50
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Five sections of film show coal mining scenes, testing the torsion of a cable, fire-fighting exercise and a variety of workers' facial expressions.
Description: I. Vivid film [apparently lit with miners' lamps] show men in a mine gallery shovelling coal onto a conveyor belt after working the coal loose [ca 1920].
II. A foreman oversees two workers test the strength and torsion of a cable until it frays and snaps causing a puff of smoke [ca 1935].
III. Further scenes inside a coal mine with miners working at the coal face, passing up pit props and posing in a group for the camera. The miners, including a young boy, play up before the camera [ca 1920].
IV. Workers wearing breathing apparatus play a hose on a blazing building and carry out dummy wounded on stretchers. Damaged building is then demolished by axe. [Location is area of Essen overlooked by blocks of flats which is used as fire-fighting and air defence practice ground by Krupp [ca 1940].
V. Close-up and carefully lit views of a variety of workers' facial expressions, including a welder and a blacksmith with forge and anvil [ca 1940].
