The Marble Men (1929)

“Deep in the western quarries where the only music is that of the drill, hammer and dynamite!!“ Various shots of a marble quarry. Machines which “cut and eat up the hard marble, like so much soft clay“ are shown. M/S of men using hand tools and drills to break up the stone. L/S of a large square of marble being pulled over by a pulley. Various shots of cranes, blocks of marble etc. C/U of the wheels of a locomotive. High angle shot of the train on snowy tracks. It pulls trailers with huge blocks of marble on them. Was an item in Pathe Pictorial issue number 581. 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 N