The Granite Men Of Poland (1935)

Titles read: ’THE GRANITE MEN OF POLAND’. Klesow, Poland. Several shots show men working at a stone quarry. They put dynamite powder into the ground, then a warning klaxon sounds and the men run to take cover. A man presses a detonator and a huge chunk of the rock explodes and falls to the ground. The men work with drills and hammers to split the rocks, then the shapers smoothes the rock into blocks that will be used in road making in Galicia and Upper Silesia. 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 collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 19