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Brunkul (1941)

Brunkul poster
Directed by
Bjarne Henning-Jensen
Genre
documentary film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
6 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film shows a day in a Danish brown coal mine in 1941. Workers dig and sort coal by hand, moving it with wheelbarrows and horse-drawn carts.

industrialmatter-of-factobservationalgrittyslow-pacedmonotoneeducationalearthy

What happens

Brunkul er en film instrueret af Bjarne Henning-Jensen efter eget manuskript. Kl. 6 begynder arbejdet i brunkulslejerne. Arbejderne sænkes ned i dybet med kran. 15 m sand dækker kullene. Sandet graves bort og fjernes på trillebør. Kul graves med gravemaskine. Sortering af kul efter størrelse i 3 kategorier. Der arbejdes 16 timer i døgnet, i to hold. Frokostpause. Tipvogne og lokomotiver. Hestevogne kører kul til jernbanen. Kultog. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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