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Title: STEEL WORKS, the

Reference number: 1782

Date: 1948c

Production company: GB Instructional Limited

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.29 mins

Description: Two children visit a steel works where they see the furnace in action.

Credits: p. John C. Elder

Shotlist: Credits (.14); On our next day in town, while Margaret went visiting relatives, George and I were taken by the manager of a steel works to see the great furnaces. Young boy and girl walk along a street into a building (.28); Shot of interior of steel yard with men at work (.32); Boy and girl meet a man, they walk into the steel yard (.43); Inside the building, children don protective glasses and watch men at work by furnace (1.05); We saw one being filled with pig iron ... Shot of same (1.57); ... and scrap metal. Shot of same (2.12); One of the furnaces had been burning for about 12 hours and the metal was melted. Shot of men looking at molten metal and shot of metal pouring out of container (2.36); A steel worker took a sample and inspected it at a water tank. Shot of same (3.09); Ore and minerals were added to make the mixture correct. Shot of worker adding ore and minerals to the furnace (3.46); A chemist with a special thermometer measured the temperature of the molten metal. Shot of same (4.25); An electric current showed that the temperature was 1600 degrees centigrade, 16 times as hot as boiling water. Shot of same (4.51); Another sample was tried. Shot of sample metal being cooled in water (5.15); It appeared right so a test sample was taken ... Shot of same (5.33); ...and sent to the laboratories where the quality of the steel was measured. Young boy and girl in lab watch as sample steel is tested (7.21); The sample was satisfactory and the furnace was "tapped". Shot of workmen tapping furnace (8.41); The molten metal was taken to the foundry and poured into a shape made in the sand. Shot of same (9.18); Back at the furnace we watched men putting in fresh sand and making the furnace ready to be again charged with more pig iron and scrap metal. Boy and girl watch through protective glasses (9.52); Silhouette of worker shovelling sand into furnace mouth (9.59); More shots of workers (10.18); We were standing at a safe distance but we felt almost shrivelled with the heat and were not sorry to leave. Boy and girl leave the steel works (10.29); End credits.