" COAL AN AMERICAN ASSET " 1974 COAL INDUSTRY PROMOTIONAL FILM 93914

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This patriotic, color educational film is about coal and how it's beneficial to our energy resources. It dates to 1974.

Opening: field, trees on the side of a mountain, grain in a field, ocean water, water flows from a dam - Title: An American Asset (:06-:45). People walk in a major metropolitan area, NYC. Steel workers at work. A woman uses her thermostat in the house. Traffic backed up on a highway. Gas shortage footage from the mid 1970s - a line at a gas station and a sign that reads: NO GAS. Oil refinery (:46-1:42). Oil rig at work. Giant ship at sea. Off shore oil rig. Men in a control room. Uranium is removed slowly with a crane. The side of a mountain with lots of coal nearby. Coal is a natural energy resource. A pie graph shows that coal represents almost 90% of our energy inventory. Coal is an American energy asset. A piece of coal. Marshy swamp. Peat was an early form of coal. Molecules are shown squeezing out in animation. Lignite, Bituminous, anthracite are explained. Different layers of sedimentary rock are shown in an animated diagram with coal near the bottom.
(1:43-4:55). Riding through a coal mine. The tools for dredging up coal are shown. A miner uses a machine to dig up coal. Shuttle car is loaded with cut coal. Coal is deposited onto a conveyor belt. A small mining train pulls coal out in its cars. Miners use hoses to spray limestone to protect against dust and provide safety. Steel rods secure the roof. Miners discuss (4:56-8:03). Hands use drafting equipment and work on paperwork. Control room of a mine. A hand pulls knobs. Closed circuit cameras show video replay. Animation shows Overburden like clay, limestone and shale. Beneath that is coal. A blast is done to get closer to the coal. A machine drills into a hillside. Workers pass things around. Bulldozers push rock around (8:04-10:39). Seed and water is spread once the land is flattened. A man wearing a safety helmet looks at a dry field in the west. A fertile grass covers an area where a worker looks. Overburden is moved. A giant Dragline is required to move overburden. A huge loading shovel scoops up the coal and pours it into a dump truck. Dump trucks drive off and move the coal. Coal runs on a belt. Miners in a control room. Coal coming down a belt (10:40-13:12). Metallurgical coal or coking coal is a grade of coal that can be used to produce good-quality coke. Coke is an essential fuel and reactant in the process for steelmaking. The demand for metallurgical coal is highly coupled to the demand for steel. A worker hoses things down. Coal is put onto a belt and placed into a ship. Multiple train cars carry coal. A unit train loads and unloads, never stopping. River barge float coal up and down US rivers. Coal is dumped into a barge. A barge blares its horn as it passes the St. Louis Arch (13:13-15:27). A coal pipeline. Fuel is mixed with water. An electric power station at the mouth of a mine. Coal comes up the belt. Electric power towers. A piece of coal. Exterior of the Bituminous Coal Research, Inc. building (15:28-17:04). A person wearing safety goggles looks into a microscope. Scientists work on experiments. A person scoops up water to test it. More looking into a microscope. Scientists perform a test with heat. Control room knobs and buttons. Coal is converted from a solid into a gaseous state. Men walk around the inside of the plant (17:05-19:08). Close on pipes. A worker wears a breathing apparatus and checks levels. A guy pours coal into a pipe. Miners ready themselves to go into the mine and walk into the mine tunnel. At the end of the shift the miners take a small version of a rail car. Men remove their shirts and take showers. A man smokes. Downtown main street. A nice neighborhood. Snow flurries fall as men get into a car and drive out of a driveway (19:09-22:27). Men exit the car and carry their hunting rifles into the woods. The two men look at where an old mine used to be. They wander the property. Aerial shot of a mine (22:28-24:03). Aerial shot of trees. Deer roam a field. A manmade lake. Mount Rushmore. Side of a mountain. A field, trees on the side of a mountain, grain in a field, ocean water. Statue of Liberty.

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