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  • Short Summary

    Yellow tinted version of the rescue attempts at a coalmine after a gas explosion, Indiana, USA.

  • Description

    Item title reads - King Coal takes toll. Affecting scenes at pithead in which 51 miners lost lives in gas explosion. Sullivan, Indiana, USA (U.S.A.).

    L/S of the pit, the camera pans across the many people waiting there. M/S as four men carry out a body covered up on a stretcher and take it through the crowds. M/S of a man coming out supported by two others, he is injured and shaken, other injured men also come out. M/S of a man on a stretcher, another man leans over and speaks to him. M/S of three men drinking coffee and eating sandwiches.

    Note: this item is tinted yellow, there is a black and white version with the same title and footage on *PM0378*.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    378.26
    Media URN:
    24933
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    09/03/1925
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:02:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:49:49:00 / 01:50:51:00
    Canister:
    G 1170

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