GAUMONT GRAPHIC 451 (fragment) [Main]

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Year: 1915
Runtime: 1 min
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".
Newsreel item on a major explosion during an engineering project, USA, summer 1915.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / engineering, civil, United States / United States of America
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
Production company: Gaumont
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Without sound
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