Brown Coal To Kilowatts

Duration:

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Frank Hurley

Complete Record: Shots of a power plant in Australia. Children on a field trip, getting on and off a school bus. Shots of smoke stacks and power lines. LS of a coal pit and the trains that transport coal. Conveyer belts hat move coal into a big grinder. Lots of shots of the power plant, with its gauges and pressure dials. Coal is shown burning in a furnace. A demonstration of coal converted to energy. The hydroelectric plant has turbines and turbo generators. Toy windmills.