Title:IRON ORE MINING AND MISCELLANEOUS KRUPP SEQUENCES [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 54
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Singer and accompanist; test firing railway gun; railway coal tipper demonstration; part of film with titles on the mining of iron ore.
Description: I. Two men in evening dress arrive on a concert platform. One sings to the accompaniment of the other's piano playing [ca 1930].
II. Test firing a ca 20cm railway gun [ca 1935].
III. Demonstration of the lever-mechanism on a railway coal tipper truck [ca 1930].
IV. Part of an information film for a general audience illustrates open cast mining of iron ore and its transportation to a smelting plant. Using an air pressure drill a miner makes holes in the quarry face for the insertion of sticks of explosive. After the detonation of the charge, miners hack away at the cleared face and remove the ore in barrows and trucks along small railway lines. Trucks reach the surface by lift. Women and girls manually separate waste rock from that containing ore. Latter is transported to a smelting plant and tipped into furnaces by workers wheeling small tippers on rails [ca 1920].
