Carmaux, défournage du coke (translated as Drawing Out the coke) is a film made in 1896 by Lumière. The location was Carmaux, France near the Tarn River in southern France. It is a one minute sequence of men lifting a large coal 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.Synopsis
Carmaux (Tarn), sur le plateau de défournement, le coke brûlant est poussé hors du four. Des ouvriers l’éteignent au jet d’eau et le mettent en morceaux. Sur le ponton des fours, d’autres ouvriers avancent des wagonnets.