Carmaux, défournage du coke (1896)

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a one-minute silent film showing workers at a steel mill in France. Men lift a large block of hot coke from a smelter, spray it with water, and rake it out. Other workers push coal carts on tracks nearby.

observationalindustrialfactualbusymatter-of-facthistoricaldocumentary-style

What happens

Carmaux, défournage du coke (translated as Drawing Out the coke) is a French silent film made in 1896 by Lumière. The location was the Saut-du-Tarn Steel Works at Carmaux, near the river Tarn in southern France. It is a one-minute sequence of men lifting a large coal block out of a smelter. One man is spraying water to cool the block while others use rakes to spread it out. Others can be seen pushing coal carts along a track. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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