Mining operations, Pennsylvania coal fields /

The film opens on an area covered with snow where the following operations are visible: track laying, and dirt moving by explosion, grader, steam shovel, and steam engine.

H54720 U.S Copyright Office

Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 23Dec04; H54720.

Cameraman, Jamison.

Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 208.

Duration: 2:25 at 16 fps.

Filmed December 17, 1904 in Drifton, PA.

Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.

Received: ca. 1991 from LC lab; ref prints and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

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