Steel
1945 · Film · documentary · 33 min
Directed by Ronald H. Riley
A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel.
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Directed by Ronald H. Riley
A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel.
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For those interested in historical steel production, I'd recommend watching this beautiful documentary from 1945, made by the British Council in postwar Britain.
It shows massive industrial steel plants operated entirely by hand - highly trained teams of men spending their days doing what we'd do with computers, pulling levers and operating wheels to control individual parameters of steel-making machines, and turning out steel made with incredible precision.
The narrator, John Laurie, later became famous for playing Private James Frazer in the UK sitcom Dad's Army.
http://film.britishcouncil.org/steel