Dynamite Stumbles Four Smoke Stacks (1914-1918)

Dynamite stumbles four smoke stacks. United States of America. Demolition. Factory torn down in Oklahoma: 4 tall smoke stacks are dynamited- - wow! Very cool. Opens w/ titles. Then MS workers- hooking up cable. GV factory area w/ buildings & 3 tall chimneys - all plain looking & unpainted. BOOM; dynamite explodes; chimney collapses; at same time aeroplane flies over. CU Another shot of man w/ detonator; a 2nd man stands by; also something on a tripod; surveyor’s equipment? Then of course another Boom - as a chimney collapses; knocking down some roofs on the way;again; aeroplane flies over. Next title says Just like Humpty Dumpty (!) ha ha. Of course another collapsing smokestack. Just one more; and they do this one in CU closer anyway. Shot of midsection of the tall cylinder. then it falls forward; toward camera; crumbling and collapsing w/ a cloud of smoke rising from ground. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, F
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