Wealth For Some - Penury For Others (1926)

Full title missing, according to issue sheet it reads: “Wealth for some - penury for others. Agile youth and stiff joined old age - in dramatic race to peg out their claims in newly discovered diamond field. After 7 days feverish digging!“ South Africa. L/S of a crowd of people and cars gathered on desert plain. All at once the people run towards the camera. Hundreds of men race past. L/S of an encampment on the desert - diamond prospectors living in tents and caravans. Panning shot of diamond mine field - individuals dig their own small pits. M/S of a man turning a handle of a machine (looks like giant mangle) that sieves water, a child clears silt with spade in front of machine. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical co