A Pinch of Salt

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1551
Date Released
23 Feb 1959
Date submitted
9 Feb 1959
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Pinch of Salt. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show Canada’s greatest salt mine at Ojibway, Ontario, a show place, covering over three square miles. They estimate a yield of a million tons a year for the next hundred years: and no need to take that with a pinch of salt! SHOTLIST: Scene in mine (key). MS to CU truck with miners moving. Same - passes over top of camera. BS same. LS truck moving through tunnel. Same - rounds bend. CU salt cutting machine operating. Same. SCU miner shovelling salt. LS hole drilling machine in operation. FS CU same. MS miner in seat. MS rods drilling salt. CU same. MS miners placing dynamite charges in holes. CU same. MS miner presses plunger. MS explosion - salt caves in. CU mechanical grabber sorting salt. Another angle same. MS pan truck and trailer pass camera. MS salt tipped out onto conveyor belt. TS conveyor belt with salt moving. CU salt being tipped. MS salt being sorted. CU Grabbers sorting salt.
Keywords
Vehicles; Environment; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Explosions
Locations
Canada
Footage sources
National Film Board of Canada
Card file number
76312
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
113
Story extras:
Film clip

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'A Pinch of Salt', British Movietone News Issue No. 1551, 23 Feb 1959. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/22885 (Accessed 27 Jun 2025)