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South Africa Gold Mine; Weekend Military Encampment, 1942

Reel Number: 221396-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: British South Africa,South Africa

Location: Johannesburg

TC Begins: 13:53:08

TC Ends: 14:03:19

Duration: 00:10:11

South Africa Gold Mine; Weekend Military Encampment, 1942 Black native miners w/ jackhammers in stope or underground tunnel, Kelly w/ lantern inspecting & leaving mine. Electrical railway in mine passing on tracks. CU Kelly at rock. Men shoveling ore into cart. 13:55:11 Miners out of elevator & walk to Change House. Kelly & other whites having coffee in changing room; clothes on hanging ropes, Kelly changing boots & leaving Change House. 13:56:00 Gold in bucket lifted out of furnace & poured w/ tongs into molds. 13:57:17 Mold dumped & gold bullion brick carried to scale. Miners walking home w/ mine in background. Whites together & Blacks segregated together. 13:58:01 Kelly up gravel walk to house, greeted by two children. Shot from inside of kids watching for dad, get up & go out to greet him. 13:59:17 Family at table having coffee & cake. Kelly in uniform kisses family goodbye & leaves. Out front door, down path w/ rifle & duffle bag en route to weekend camp. 14:00:14 Flag of Mines Engineering Brigade w/ jackhammer in center. Men lined up w/ tents behind. Empty duffle for inspection; men talking. Kit being inspected. Men put things back, at attention, leave w/ bags to tents. 14:01:41 Sign: Middelvlei Camp West Rand Battalion Mines Engineering Brigade SAEC and barbed wire fence. Kelly instructing in handling the Bren gun, men listening; Kelly dismantling gun. 14:03:01 Man w/ blankets into tent; others out. Several sitting reading, talking in front of tents. WWII; Mining; British Colonialism; Dutch Colonialism; British South Africa;

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