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Industries of the United States: Steel - The Hardest Metal in the World

0720 PA9053 Industries of the United States: Steel / The Hardest Metal in the World


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

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Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Chipmaster - - November 26, 2004
Subject: Monster Chips
Huge generator parts are put on a vertical turret lathe and cut dry with a one inch carbide tool. The disk is first turned to size and then faced. The lack of OSHA during the time of this filming is evident: The worker wears no safety glasses, and has only thin leather gloves to protect his hands as he pulls huge chips (what look like "iron coils") from the lathe. Those chips look to be 1/4" thick, razor sharp, and could easily take off a finger if snagged on the machinery when handled.

Then the scariest part when the worker rests his bare hand directly on the cutting tool, as the chips brush by. This is priceless footage of a bygone era with old technology and outmoded practices.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - November 5, 2003
Subject: From the pits of Hell!
A silent, with orchestral score added film tour of a steel mill. The first part features the now familiar molten iron fires and steel being shaped. The 2nd fixates on either smoothing out the metals or making iron coils. I think it's the former rather then the latter. It's not really explained. It's a neat effect, but goes on FAR too long. I found the whole film, save for the neat opening scene, not adding to what we already don't know about steel.

Reviewer: cashel - - September 11, 2003
Subject: sepia
converted into SEPIA using windows xp movie maker,I have found the film to be impressive and beautiful

Reviewer: dynayellow - - September 11, 2003
Subject: I thought that was titanium.
Short newsreel on the creation of steel with some nifty title cards ("The grandeur of the Pittsburgh inferno!" "Forged in a blast of hell!")and great "Perils of Pauline" music. Not sure why the went to all the trouble to forge the steel just to have it cut into coils, but that's their business.