China Clay
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: It’s an eerie scene. Just like a lunar landscape. Yet Pic’s journey into space has come as far as Cornwall, where the vast China-clay pits are man-made and robot-controlled. Powerful hoses explode the clay from the rock-face and send it cascading down the quarry. Then the rivers of clay become the lifelines of many industries.
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Mining
- Locations
- Cornwall; England; St Austell
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Richard Norton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 178
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How to cite this record
'China Clay', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 508, 20 Sep 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121561 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)