| Horse Shoe Works | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1638 |
| Catalog #: | 355107 | |
| Clip Number: | 355107-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 030-077-05 | |
| Timecode: | 00:44:03 - 00:44:46 | |
| Location: | Joliet, Illinois | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Blacksmithing LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois OCCUPATIONS: Factory Workers | |
| Description: | Poor image quality. The Phoenix Company in Joliet, Illinois is the largest manufacturer in the world of one of the world's oldest products in iron. Hot strips of steel are molded and cut, pressed and punched and the results, Horse Shoes! This is a ten million dollar business. Without the horse man could not of archived his present civilization. Stacks of steel poles. MCUS - Inside the mill one of the men has a blaring piece of red hot steel rod. It is fed into a machine. MCUS - Two workers small strips of the steel rod and places it under a press. MCUS - The punched steel is then given to another worker where he feed it into a molding machine, where it is bent and shaped into a horse shoe. CUS - The final touch to the horse shoe is where another worker puts in the holes, then their polished and packaged. | |
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