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British Steel Industry Film "Steel Road" Henry Bessemer Mines & Mining 99084 (1956)

1956 · Short film · 23 min

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This color educational film is about Steel entitled STEEL ROAD, it's from 1956 and made in Britain. Title card: The British Board of Film Censors, this is to certify that 'STEEL ROAD' has been passed for general exhibition (:08-:14). Titles: Workington Iron & Steel Company, branch of the United Steel Companies Limited presents: STEEL ROAD (:15-:36). A tribute to Sir Henry Bessemer, FRS by the people of Workington, England. A painting of Bessemer is shown, he's one of England's great inventors. Practical invention was his answer to any problem. He was 41 when the Crimean War began. He invented a bullet but it didn't work properly. From this he found his life's work: steel. The Bessemer process as it came to be was: involved using oxygen in air blown through molten pig iron to burn off the impurities and thus create steel. He could make it faster and cheaper. Due to this England produced the most steel in the entire world (:37-3:53). Workington, England. A n Industrial town built on iron. Working men walk. Houses are shown. Men work in the mine seeking hematite. Footage of mining and its processes. Other countries give some hematite. Coke is used as a fuel and a reducing agent in melting iron ore. It is produced by baking coal until it becomes carbon by burning off impurities without burning up the coal itself. When coke is consumed it generates intense heat but little smoke. The hows and whys of making iron and steel. Lots of furnace footage (3:54-8:35). The Bessemer process…

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Running time
23 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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