Miners Rescued (1963)

Item title reads - Miners rescued. Three miners are rescued from Lengede-Broistedt mine in Germany. M/S pan cranes in operation lowering the escape shaft over the pit. Crane pans down to escape shaft being lowered. M/S decompression chamber being prepared. C/U valves on chamber. M/S escape shaft being lowered. M/S Paul Syska, the mine ’escape foreman’. C/U shaft being lowered with Syska inside. M/S diagram shot showing how the rescue is carried out. M/S above surface of decompression chamber over the escape shaft. M/S group of nurses waiting. C/U of the three men, Emil Polai, Fritz Leder and Gerhard Hanusch. Various shots as the men walk away with Syska. M/S crowd watching. C/U old woman in crowd. L/S pan of the three men walking away from pit surrounded by medical people. C/U one of the rescuers drinking a bottle of beer. M/S crowds and rescuers walking away from pit head. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARI