UNITED KINGDOM: Digging for coal in waste tips in Wales (1926)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Video Roll Title: Digging for coal in waste tips:109ft Digging for coal in waste tips, Cardiff Coal: Digging for coal in waste tips. Full Description: WALES SLATE INFORMATION: Mining in the open. Searching a mountain of slack for precious coal near Cardiff GV pan across slack mountain- men working on the edge SV men digging away at slack SV three men walk in line along path beside slag heap dragging handcarts with sacks of coal on them SV men digging away at slack, picking up off bits of coal. LS pan across slack face showing men working on the edge LS men walking along path dragging handcarts GV pan across slag heap SLATE INFORMATION: The shortage compels merchants to use fuel blocks as a substitute SV men piling up fuel blocks onto carts SV horses standing at head of carts SV men piling up fuel blocks onto carts Background: Video Roll Title: Digg