''Carmaux, défournage du coke'' (translated as ''Drawing Out the coke'') is a French silent film made in 1896 by Lumière. The location was the

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Carmaux Carmaux (; oc, Carmauç) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. Industries The Compagnie minière de Carmaux has its origins in a coal mining concession granted in 1852 to Gabriel de Solages, which became the Compagnie min ...

, near the river Tarn in southern

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. It is a one-minute sequence of men lifting a large

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block out of a smelter. One man is spraying water to cool the block while others use rakes to spread it out. Others can be seen pushing coal carts along a track.

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1896 films French black-and-white films French silent short films Films directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière 1896 short films Black-and-white documentary films 1890s French films {{1890s-France-film-stub

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