Canada Passes The Salt! 1959

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Description

Titles read: "ONTARIO - CANADA PASSES THE SALT".

Ontario, Canada.

Various shots of the salt mine at Ojibway. Salt miners go down in the lift shaft to work. Salt is blasted from the walls underground. The salt is collected by machines and put on conveyor belts to go to the surface.

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50378
Sort Number:
59/016
Time in/Out:
01:39:58:00 / 01:40:58:00
Canister:
59/16
Film ID:
1569.30
Issue Date:
23/02/1959

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