Russian Mining Scenes - Electrification of Machinery
May include shots from Vertov’s Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1931)
Miners descend in lift - coal / mineral wagons loaded into lift & sent up - water pouring down, workers in waterproofs. Miner crawling through dark tunnel w/ lantern. Horses pulling carts through mine. Shirtless miner hacking at rock w/ pickaxe slow; miner dislodging shelf of rock from tunnel roof. Rock-grinding machine? Drilling into rock. Rocks & debris down chute into wagon, pushed away by miner. Cutaways to electricity pylon. Group of miners finishing work & into elevator - water pouring down shaft shots repeated. Lift arrives above ground, miners out.
18:39:55 Two lines of miners file up & down wooden staircase, some women. CU miners out of elevator. LS pyramid above mine w/ cart being hoisted to top - pulley scaffold in FG. Female workers attend to wagons of coal as they emerge from below ground - loaded into revolving emptying mechanism. Top shot women sorting minerals from coal on moving conveyor.
Russia / USSR. Heavy Industry. 1920s.
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Russian Mining Scenes - Electrification of Machinery May include shots from Vertov’s Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1931) Miners descend in lift - coal / mineral wagons loaded into lift & sent up - water pouring down, workers in waterproofs. Miner crawling through dark tunnel w/ lantern. Horses pulling carts through mine. Shirtless miner hacking at rock w/ pickaxe slow; miner dislodging shelf of rock from tunnel roof. Rock-grinding machine? Drilling into rock. Rocks & debris down chute into wagon, pushed away by miner. Cutaways to electricity pylon. Group of miners finishing work & into elevator - water pouring down shaft shots repeated. Lift arrives above ground, miners out. 18:39:55 Two lines of miners file up & down wooden staircase, some women. CU miners out of elevator. LS pyramid above mine w/ cart being hoisted to top - pulley scaffold in FG. Female workers attend to wagons of coal as they emerge from below ground - loaded into revolving emptying mechanism. Top shot women sorting minerals from coal on moving conveyor. Russia / USSR. Heavy Industry. 1920s.