Just Pumice (1934)

Titles read: “Just Pumice and how it leaves home“. Lipari, Italy. Several shots of the coastline of the beautiful islands of Lipari. Various shots of the quarries where volcanic lava is extracted to make pumice stones. Workers operate machinery to grind the rocks; a woman poses with a basket of pumice stones; men carry sacks of pumice rocks or powder down slopes to the sea. Brief shot of a ship moored off the coast (waiting for loads of exported pumice?). 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 1957 to th