Pageant of Power Educational Series
Commissioned by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, this four part educational miniseries documents the engineering, mining operations and electrical distribution in Latrobe Valley. This series incorporates footage from Frank Hurley's 1936 standalone film, alongside new, expanded material to follow the formation and mining of brown coal, power generation, factory processing, electrical distribution networks within Victoria and Melbourne, and the manufacturing of briquettes.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Romance of Brown Coal
01-01-194911 minIllustrates how brown coal formed over millions of years in the Latrobe Valley. Shows open-cut mining methods and the mechanical conveyance of coal to the power house and briquetti...
- Ep 2
2.Brown Coal to Kilowatts
01-01-194911 minFormatted as a conducted school trip to Yallourn. Children view the open-cut dredgers, boiler-houses and turbo-generators. To illustrate the principles of an electrical turbine, a...
- Ep 3
3.The Magic of Electricity
01-01-194911 minTakes the viewer on an inside tour of the Yallourn Power Station, "Victoria's most important power house". This episode details how electricity is generated and distributed across...
- Ep 4
4.Brown Coal to Briquettes
01-01-194911 minShows the processing of the Yallourn and Morwell brown coal deposits. Focuses on the industrial factory manufacturing methods used to press raw mined material into commercial fuel...
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