Navy Miners (1951)
Channel: Archives New Zealand
Date: 2012-10-18

Men of the Royal New Zealand Navy maintain essential supplies of coal during an emergency.

PAN L-R Open cast mine (Stockton, West Coast) foreground arm of crane; background coal-filled trucks moving about the mine floor

WS Trailer of truck filled with coal as bucket of crane empties it's load

MCU Bucket of crane scraping up coal face and filling up, swivels toward waiting truck

WS Waiting truck has final load of coal tipped into it

PAN R-L Truck moves along mine road with full load of coal

WS Mine road; road bridge

MCU Truck stationery on road bridge

WS Coal tipped from trailer down shute

WS Sailors on duty alongside shute below bridge guiding coal from belts (TILT DOWN) to smaller lorries

WS Lorry (KIWI CSRRIERS) move towards camera, leaving behind load shute and bridge

MCU Filling of rail bogey

CU Sailor, smoking cigarette, pushes rail bogey toward camera. Rail bogey fixed on rope line

WS Bogies travel along rope line

WS Bogies on rope line pulley arrangement

MCU Bogey released from rope

WS Strong-arm thrust into wheel;, acting as brake

MCU Sailor working alongside bogey

WS bogey approaches second sailor who tosses his strong-arm to the side

TS Bogey continues journey down rope line track

WS PAN L-R Coal emptying into railway container

PAN R-R Railway containers moving out

WS Westport

PAN L-R Railway containers hoisted to waiting ships hull

CU Ship bell "LACHLAN', (Survey ship) sailor rings bell

Ws "Lachlan" berthed Westport docks

DV file of Beta SP telecine of 35mm film- 200,074