GAUMONT GRAPHIC 451 (fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: GAUMONT GRAPHIC 451 (fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1061-06k
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  • Summary: Newsreel item on a major explosion during an engineering project, USA, summer 1915.
  • Description: Engineers place dynamite into the holes drilled for the blast. The charge of 26 tons of dynamite is then used to blow a cliff-face, bringing down 300,000 tons of rock, "a record blast".
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1061-06k)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1915-07
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Gaumont (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: engineering, civil, United States (object name) United States of America (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 39 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production: see IWM 1061-01 for production details Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 1061-06a-m, the can is marked as IWM 1061-06
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1061-06k

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