Blasting A Lime Stone Quarry In Yorkshire (1938)

Title reads: “YORKSHIRE“. Various shots of a man inserting some dynamite into the base of a limestone quarry. The wife of a company director (presumably of the mining company) pushes down the detonator and the blast of the huge explosion reduces a large amount of the quarry to rubble and dust clouds. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.