Refine Your Search

Huntsville Alabama USA 1956 stock footage and images

- Showing 7909 to 7914 of 25341 results
The film 'The Story of Coal' shows American workers working at a coal mining site in the United States.

The film 'The Story of Coal' shows the process of mining of coal in the United States. Workers use a diamond drill to determine the depth of coal seams and their thickness. Workers move the drilling mechanism backward and hoist rods from a hole. Two workers hold a rod in hand. A tractor parked in the background. A collection of ten feet long cores.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050758
American miners enter a coal seam at a coal mining site in the United States; train underground passes through coal mine.

The mining process of coal in the United States. Miners take out coal from the earth. A group of miners stands in a line next to a shaft. The miners enter the shaft 600 feet down by riding a caged lift or elevator. Point of view shot from the elevator lift as it descends, showing the walls of the lift shaft and then arrival underground beside a rail system tunnel. Point of view shot from camera at front of coal locomotive train as it moves along tracks underground in the coal mine. At one point the car pauses when a switch man waving a a handheld light comes out to stop the train and allow miners to pass by over the tracks on foot, and to allow another train from an adjacent tunnel to pass in front at the switch. Motor Pit and Machine Shop areas are seen, underground, where engineers are at work repairing and maintaining locomotives and equipment. Train with camera on board comes to a stop in the machine shop area.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050759
American miners remove coal from coal seams with the help of explosives and machines in the United States.

The mining process of coal in the United States. Interior of a coal seam with a railroad track. American miners remove coal with the help of machinery. The miners place explosives to break rocks inside coal seams.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050760
Coal is loaded on small trains with the help of machines inside a coal seam in the United States.

Mining process of coal in the United States. Interior of a coal seam with a railroad track. Heavy machinery on the track. Coal being loaded onto small trains with the help of machinery. Miners stand with loosened coal in the background.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050761
Coal is loosened with the help of heavy machinery inside a coal seam in the United States.

Mining process of coal in the United States. Coal loosened with the help of heavy machinery. A heap of coal in a coal seam. Small trains loaded with coal move on railroad tracks inside the coal seam.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050762
A coal loaded train heads towards a rotary dump inside a coal seam in the United States.

Mining process of coal in the United States. Small trains loaded with coal move on railway tracks inside a col seam. The trains head toward a rotary dump. View of a portable sub-station supplying power for underground operations. A coal loaded train reaches the rotary dump.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050763