Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
About Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
At the Saut-du-Tarn steel works in Carmaux, near the river Tarn, a brick of coke about four feet high and three feet wide is pushed out of a smelter into the yard. One man hoses it to cool it. Two men wait with long rakes to spread it. Other workers cross the foreground. The camera does not move.
Cast & crew
More about Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Louis Lumière filmed this one-minute actuality in 1896. The French title is Carmaux, défournage du coke. Carmaux is in south-central France.
Themes
Background
An 1896 Lumière view of coke being drawn at a steel works on the Tarn.
Look
A stationary camera holds the mouth of the smelter, the hose, and the men with rakes in one frame.
Notes
- The coke brick is described as about four feet high and three feet wide.
- The hose and the rakes are the whole action. There is no staged incident.
- Workers and coal carts pass on a track in front of a fixed camera.
Scenes
- The coke brick slides out while one man sprays it and two others stand ready with rakes.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Carmaux, défournage du coke - Court métrage 1896.webm)
