Ohio-1966: Giant Stripping Shovel Cab Sign and Tilt Up Its Towering Boom

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 · Ohio, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

coal mining
strip mining
heavy industry
engineering scale
industrial heritage
Appalachian Ohio
family sightseeing

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · tilt · handheld
Setting: outdoor · surface coal mine with spoil banks around a giant stripping shovel
Time and weather: day · winter · overcast
Lighting: flat overcast daylight with small working lights on the machine
People: 0 · No people are clearly visible.
Vehicles: Silver Spade stripping shovel
Landmarks: The Silver Spade
Objects: stripping shovel cab · painted crest emblem · lattice boom · dipper handle · hoist cables · boom point sheaves · working lights · spoil banks
Readable signs: THE SILVER SPADE
Colors: blue-violet · red · white · grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The white and red cab lettered 'THE SILVER SPADE' fills the frame.
The camera tilts up from the cab along the red boom and dipper handle.
The boom point and hoist cables appear against an overcast sky.
A light flare washes the boom as the shot drifts right.

Giant Stripping Shovel Cab Sign and Tilt Up Its Towering... — Clip Details

In Harrison County, Ohio, circa 1966, home movie footage shows the Silver Spade, a Bucyrus-Erie stripping shovel at a Hanna Coal surface mine. The shot opens on the white and red cab lettered 'THE SILVER SPADE' beside a crest emblem, with small lights along its base. The handheld camera then pans and tilts up the long red boom, past the dipper handle and hoist cables, to the boom point against an overcast sky above dark spoil banks.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002160

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1966 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Ohio, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for mid-1960s colour film of Ohio strip mining and named giant excavators, for coal history documentaries and industrial heritage exhibits.
Period detail: The Silver Spade lettering dates the shot to after November 1965, and the faded blue-magenta colour stock fits later-1960s amateur film.
Home-movie behavior: A family visitor films the machine as a sight worth recording, lingering on its name before craning up to show its size.
What appears in frame: The frame shows a white cab with a red stripe and 'THE SILVER SPADE' lettering, a crest emblem, small working lights, a red lattice boom, the dipper handle, hoist cables, and spoil banks under grey sky.
Film character: Small-gauge colour film with a strong blue-violet shift, soft focus, fine grain, dust specks and a closing light flare gives it an authentic amateur projection texture.
Edit role: Works as a naming insert or establishing shot for a strip-mining sequence, with the boom tilt serving as a scale reveal or transition.
Historical context: Hanna Coal named the Silver Spade for its 25th anniversary and ran it in Harrison County from 1965; the machine was scrapped beginning in 2007, after a preservation effort failed.
Research note: No people are identifiable; the painted crest and machine name are corporate markings, so trademark use should be assessed separately from copyright in the film itself, and no clearance is guaranteed.
Research search match: Silver Spade stripping shovel home movie, 1960s Ohio strip mine colour film, giant coal shovel amateur footage, Hanna Coal machinery archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's antenna tower workers and winter scenes, then with other mid-1960s eastern Ohio coal country footage, then with heavy machinery and industrial landmark clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Cab of the Silver Spade stripping shovel at a Harrison County, Ohio coal mine, circa 1966 — The lettered cab of the Silver Spade stripping shovel, Ohio, circa 1966.
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Boom and dipper handle of the Silver Spade rising over Ohio spoil banks, circa 1966 — The camera begins its tilt up the Silver Spade's boom from the cab corner.
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Boom point of the Silver Spade stripping shovel against overcast Ohio sky, circa 1966 — The Silver Spade's boom point and hoist cables against an overcast sky.
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Lit boom of the Silver Spade, Hanna Coal stripping shovel in Harrison County, Ohio, circa 1966 — Running lights trace the length of the Silver Spade's boom above the mine.
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