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Trinidad Asphalt And Piarco Airport, 1960s - Film 97400

Trinidad Asphalt Overhead view of a pitch lake in Trinidad, source of natural asphalt. At lake level, a machine mines the pitch. The pitch is transported by hoppers on rails. Product is barrelled at a factory, barrels move along a conveyor before local workers hand roll the barrels for loading onto a ship. Barrels of pitch are craned into a ship’s hold. Exterior of the Trinidad Mastic Asphalt Plant. Deputy Prime Minister Dr Solomon opens the new plant. He speaks at a microphone before returning to his seat. Other seated officials on the podium applaud his speech. Interior views of the factory, showing different production lines for different products that are processed by the plant, limestone, stone and bitumen. All processes are colour coded. No workers present, just the machinery is filmed. Finally a worker guides asphalt from a mixer into moulds. Close up of steaming asphalt. Fork lift truck moves the cooling moulds for stacking. On site melted blocks of asphalt are poured into a bucket, whereupon a worker hooks the bucket to a lift and the hot asphalt is lifted to the roof of a new airport building at Piarco Airport, Port of Spain. View from the airport rooftop of the airport and runway, planes waiting. The asphalt being laid on the roof. Felt being laid on the roof before molten asphalt is poured over. Men use trowels to spread the asphalt out by hand. The still warm surface is sand rubbed. Overhead panning view of the finished building roof, planes in the background.