A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Interior of a house. Mary Kincaid in the house. Lucky Burns arrives and talks to her. He proposes to her. Mary rejects the proposal. Lucky says that Mary's brother Dick Kincaid is earning enough money to take care of himself and her mother. So she should not refuse his proposal for any reason. She replies that she could never be happy with a man who is always taking chances. She says this as Lucky has denied to take safety lessons in the mine and has also said that the most of the course is taught by fellows who never worked in a mine. Dick arrives and asks them to have food. Mary further says that her mother has suffered a lot as her father was like Lucky and always took chances. She recalls the incidence. Her father was working in the mine with other miner. The miner warned her father of a loose piece of rock over him. Her father replied that the rock wouldn't fall and he would take it down when the car is loaded. The rock suddenly falls over her father. She says that her father was killed and then her mother had to suffer a lot afterwards.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid working in the mine. They talk about the work. Dick asks Burns whether he wants or not to drill a 'snubber' there. He refuses and says that they will give more powder to the top shots. They enter the mine the next day to start the work with their tools and equipment. They look at the area they were working on. Their shots were standing up. Dick says that they will have to work and dig the shots down. They load loose coal in cars. Burns suddenly falls and gets hurt by a mass of coal. A miner tries to help him and get him out of the coal pile. He applies a tourniquet to stop bleeding. Exterior of a house. Injured Burns seated outside the house. He reads a booklet about first aid. Dick standing nearby. He tells more about the instructions given to them during a safety course. Dick says that he can get copies of any of the booklets from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. They talk about a topic in the booklet that shows how barricades saved lives during mine disasters. Burns realizes that he was wrong in not attending the safety course. Mary Kincaid arrives and talks to Burns. He talks about information given in the booklet. The information is given about the fact that half of deaths in mines are caused by falling of roofs and coal over workers. Exterior of a house. A woman comes out of the house and meets a man.
A film on monuments and buildings in Venice, Italy. The main route from the oil fields of Italy to Hungary lies through Venice. A man rowing a gondola in the Grand Canal. The Rialto Bridge (Sestiere San Polo, 30125 Venezia VE, Italy) is seen in the background. The palace of Ca' d' Oro (Calle Ca' d'Oro, 3934, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy). A gondolier rowing a gondola for tourists. The entrance to Piazza San Marco (P.za San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy). The St Mark's Campanile and the Doge's Palace. Exterior of the St Mark’s Basilica. People walking towards the church. The Bridge of Sighs connecting the Doge’s Palace and a prison. Italian gondoliers rowing gondolas for tourists in Venice’s waterway.
A film titled: 'The Story of Dynamite' on the advancement of the United States by using raw materials. A man and a woman pouring water in a container from a ditch in a field. Water wheels used to furnish power. Prairie schooners moving across the field. Steamships underway at sea. Trains on a railroad track. Buildings along the sides of streets in a city. Traffic on a street. The country advances by extracting great quantities of raw materials from the earth.
A film on use of dynamite in the United States. A railroad cut-off is constructed by exploding the area with dynamite. Heavy columns of smoke rise from explosions. A man standing on the cut-off.
U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. A man standing near a pipeline. The main gas line leading into the Volturno River. Pipelines stretching across the river. A soldier camouflaging a gas dump and small petroleum storage tanks.
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