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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".
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
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