USA: Blasting 100,000 tons of rock (1919)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Shots of demolition experts setting and detonating explosives. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Dynamiting a hundred thousand tons of rock / St Louis, Missouri - Whole ridge eight hundred feet long is blasted away just to remodel the landscape USA: Missouri: St Louis: Men and machinery Intertitle: Uncle Jim Dynamite cuts up the explosive just like peeling potatoes Man cutting up sticks of dynamite and putting them in a box Intertitle: They handle dynamite like it was kindling Men loading dynamite into boxes Intertitle: All set - touching off the blast Side of cliff Demolition worker plunging detonator handle Huge explosion as cliff is blown up Intertitle: Results Men climb on pile of rocks and rubble Mining; Demolition; Dynamiting Background: Shots of demolition experts setting and detonating explosives. FILM ID: VLVA27WJ94NL2NVSL