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Moving Mountains

Accession number: 
1981.0025
Production Years: 
1981

Languages:

Film Properties: 
Length (feet): 
883 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
26

Subjects:

Holding Institutions: 

York University, Toronto, Ontario: 16mm.

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS.
"This video presents various women working as operators of dump trucks, earth movers, drilling equipment and explosives in an open pit mining operation at Elkford, British Columbia."

Bibliography: 

University of Waterloo Audiovisual Services Catalog.
"A look at women working alongside men in an open pit coal mine in southeastern British Columbia. In the film they talk about the coal company's initial reluctance to hire women for outside work, their own shyness, and the reactions of their male co-workers."