| STEEL MAKING Steel making process | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8035 |
| Catalog #: | 316913 | |
| Clip Number: | 316913-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 2111 A | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Sheffield, Yorkshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1948 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Metal, Iron & Steel | |
| Description: | STEEL MAKING Steel making process. Good shots of heavy industry in Britain, 1948. Sheffield, Yorkshire Huge piece of molten steel is bent on enormous lathe. Interesting shot of large group of men inspecting or sharpening huge circular saw blades. Grim exterior landscape: distant cooling towers (possibly nuclear power plant), with smokestacks and industrial grime. Good CUs of factory workers at their machines, including a man shoveling coal and a huge sparking vat of molten metal which gets poured into molds. LS White hot metal leaving furnace MS two men operating levers LS CU Man directing the moving of white hot metal, by hand. LS MS CU White hot metal being manoeuvred into 6,000 tons press. LS testing circular saws LS establishing shots of large steel foundry. LS steam coming from roof on steel plant LS MS CU man operating a forging press LS man operating lever in foundry LS stoker piling metal into cauldron LS sparks and smoke pouring from cauldron LS large cauldron of molten metal being slung across moulds. LS men raking clinker from furnace. | |
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