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The Last Pony Mine

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"In the spring of 1971 the New Gladstone Mine, near Centerville, Iowa was closed. It was the last of its kind in American coal mining. This film was intended to record the end of an era- the last days of a mine in which New Gladstone Minel and men's hands and backs cut and loaded it..." promotional pamphlet.
by Dr. Dorothy Schwieder and Richard Kraemer of Iowa State University
Produced by Steve Knudsen, Richard Kraemer, and the film production unit at Iowa State University
Directed and Edited by Les Benedict
Cinematographer: Gene Honert
Music by Gene Blazer
Original Date: 1973
Original format: combined 16mm A and B roll with 1/4" soundtrack
Original Digital format: 2K DPX

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11 дек 2018

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Комментарии : 11

@KKIcons 2 года назад

I am so glad this video was made. I was always curious about the pit ponies ever since I was a kid. I didn't really understand how it was done until I watched this video. I already from other research knew that the ponies helped the miners, both psychologically as well as materially. Most of the miners were very attached to them and cared for them well. They are very tough and strong, and in fact the great pony breeds we have now are better off for their working history.

@davidgaul572 4 года назад

I graduated from the film program at Iowa State in 1982. Dick Kraemer was the best teacher I ever had. "Fix it!"

@bagibbins 2 года назад

Joe Buyan is my great uncle. He and his two brothers stayed in their childhood home after they cam back in from the war. Tough guys. (And I laughed when he said he laid around for a year after leaving school at 16 - pretty sure his parents had him working the farm - no leisure time in that family!!)

@kimnoel9873 3 года назад

A man with a working welsh pony and cob in the tunnel.👷🏻‍♂️🐎🧰🔨💪🏾

@benprewitt4600 5 лет назад

"I often wonder what I'd be doin' if I wasn't makin' coal. Be likely to get stuck someplace I can't get out of." I was a machinist for a long time before epilepsy made that unfeasible, but that's an amazing remark: what everyone else outside of many industrial professions sees as sometimes literal deadend work is often the thing that makes us happy. Whether or not there's a higher calling involved in the profession is another matter: and they speak about that. But whether or not a profession is worthwhile is often dependent on the point of view of the person involved.