Interviewee Nin Martin from Goldsborough (near Dunolly) talks about his first job as a young lad in 1916 working for a mining company and how he, along with other young boys, used only a hammer to crush open the stones of quartz mined by the older diggers, in order to find the layer of molybdenum which was needed to strengthen the steel in the making of munitions for the war.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1005342
Language
English
Audience classification
ACMI classified
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Victoria - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Victoria - Social life and customs
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Memory
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
DVCAM; Master
Digital Betacam; Master
Digital Betacam; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
VHS [PAL]; Copy
MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan