BUILDING THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE 1960s BETHLEHEM STEEL PROMOTIONAL MOVIE SAN FRANCISCO MD65664
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- This 1960s color film includes 1930s black and white footage on the design, fabrication, construction, and opening of the Golden Gate bridge. It was presented by Bethlehem Steel. The film begins with a bird’s eye view of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. A statue of Joseph Straus, chief engineer, is panned up. The bridge is shown from afar (0:11-1:20). A vintage illustration shows the topography and side-view of the bridge’s construction (1:21-3:57). Black and white footage prior to the bridge’s construction began in 1933 shows the Bethlehem Steel Companies’ factories, including the massive steel trusses in fabrication, parts being transported by train and boat, and cranes lifting sections for transport (3:58-4:47). Workers pour and plane the concrete on a yet-unfinished tower (4:48-6:21). A vintage color illustration shows the measurements and basic layout of a tower (6:22-6:59). Photos of workmen craning and measuring parts are shown. A crane moves a large piece of steel to the tower off a boat (7:00-8:22). Crane workers move large pieces of steel into the base of the bridge (8:23-9:35). A photograph of the first diagonal brace is shown, and the traveler - the crane system used to build the sections - is raised (9:36-10:32). Workers weld rivets on scaffolding, movable platforms, and elevators, shown being raised up and down the bridge (10:33-11:54). Ariel footage is shown of the towers during construction, and the final part of the north tower is craned into place (11:55-13:43). Photos show the progression of construction for the San Francisco tower (13:44-15:30). Workmen use automatically-turning spinning carriages to “stitch” the north and south shores together with 80,000 miles of wire (13:44-16:28). The finished cable bundles are shown, and those bundles are wrapped with galvanized wire (16:29-17:05). A vintage illustration shows the basic anatomy of the road span (17:06-18:50). Massive worker safety nets (credited with saving lives) are raised into place, with workers moving around them (19:02-20:00). Parts of the structure are moved on trollies down the supports, and cranes move steel into place with workers riding (20:00-21:04). Beams are swung into place by crane (21:05-21:38). The net is shown again, workers show off their hardhats, and a worker puts on a safety belt and ties himself to a post (21:39-22:15). Footage pans up the unfinished span base, where both sides are almost touching to finish the bridge, and chief engineer Joseph Straus is shown watching the final part placed in to finish the bridge’s structure (22:16-24:02). Painters from the lines, painting the cable bundles “international orange” (24:03-24:20). The sidewalks and rails are trollied and craned into place, and workmen fasten them (24:21-24:48). Workmen weld the reinforcing steel for the concrete road, and cement is manually poured and leveled (24:49-25:29). The finished bridge is shown immersed in fog. Shown is footage and photos from when the bridge was completed in 1937, only four years after construction began, and film from the opening celebrations (25:30-26:36). The film ends with color footage of the bridge from the time when the film was produced (26:37-27:15).
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At age 19 in 1979 I landed a job at Bethlehem shipyard in San Francisco 20th and Illinois st. As a electricians helper.
The old timers would tell me that I have a lifetime job so being young, I dug in….. what they said would have been true if not for the 1982 steel recession. I worked there till 1982 . I learned to not rely on others… become fully knowledgeable in your craft.
I’m 62 years old and ready to retire. Bethlehem steel was like going to a university. I learned electrical principles I learned to operate industrial mills, learned to weld, burn,fabricate, repair , design, plumb, braze and work hard.
And they toughened me up , I was a beast. These experiences
Helped me get good jobs and eventually became a state licensed contractor. Also a consultant.
I think of Bethlehem fondly.
Still stands today as an example of what could be done without modern computers. I thoroughly enjoyed this film.
Tears in my eyes thinking of the loss of our wonderful Bethlehem Steel Company in Bethlehem, PA .
I have several of the Bethlehem Steel films and it always gives me chills when that Bethlehem emblem comes on at the end. Company is gone.
It's amazing how much Bethlehem was involved in building America. And without things like all these Periscope films, you'd never know. Sad how we under-appreciate our own companies.
My mother is a retired nurse in Maryland and she said it was heartbreaking to see all of those Bethlehem workers coming in who worked their entire lives for the company only to loose pensions and healthcare.
I doubt whether there is a steel company left in America that can supply that much steel to build something similar today. If I remember, they had to import prefabricated steel beams from China to repair one of the bay area bridges recently.
I would love to live in this era that is so laidback, peaceful and no internet etc.❤❤❤
GOD BLESS AMERICA❤❤❤
Back when America built things. When Beth Steel was just one of a half dozen large steel manufacturers that built buildings, bridges, and boats. When Beth Steel had three huge steel mills.
Is Bethlehem Steel still in existence?
@@donkeyslayer9879 Sadly, they went bankrupt in 2003. It couldn’t survive the toll of cheap foreign steel being dumped in the US and the weight of their retirement benefits cost. They tried everything but just couldn’t do it.
Real men doing man's work. I bet equal opportunity didn't exist in steel mills. And the workers are good, and had clean productive homes and families
This was before organized crime took over America's unions and drove production offshore. We can thank Bootlegger Joe and his kids for much of this.
The Scientist that discovered "Steel Embrittlement" while investigating plates used on the Titanic was a woman. Im sure not all of those bridgebuilders lived up to your ideals.
This Work Was one of mankind's most incredible Works, who knew😕?
My wife and I crossed the bridge on bikes ridden from downtown SF. That was one hellava bike ride. Then to Sausalito then ferry back to SF. Great memories but at the time didn't think we would make it.
Awesome! Love when he says, the film 🎞 we are about to see is old! 🍿
And that intro is already 60 years old...😆
Heres johnnyyyy
I biked across while visiting a friend in San Fran. Went into Sausalito, grabbed food, some ice-cream, and caught a ferry back across the Bay.
Thank you for sharing this video!
What a wonderful film, thank you for posting this fantastic movie.
I have a rivet from the bridge given to me when I was kid by Lowell Edington.
You should probably put it back.
I have a left over beam . :-)
Cheers to this American Steel Workers❤❤❤
R.I.P. and GOD Bless The Soul of those who perish during the construction of this bridge
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many thank to steelworkers did the great building the bridge in san francisco bay
Oh now this is waaaay cool! Thanks!
Boy I sure miss that ol bridge. Maybe they will build another one.
Admirable vision and effort. Gonna suck when there’s a big earthquake.
Thank you for sharing this video. Walked and drove across this bridge many times.
Wat een helden deze bouwers !! Geweldig wat ze toen al konden bouwen .
The days when America was great. Now they can’t even fix potholes 😢
What a fantastic feat of engineering, what a wonderful designer and the people that fabricated the parts and those that put them together. Safety also a great issue here and seemingly very successful.
Wow, what a wonderful bridge, I have always had an affinity with this particular bridge, I love its design and its look and its colour, great accompanying music as well. Thanks so much for this.
Great...glad you got to see it and appreciate it.
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outstanding!!!
The COLOR is unique...‼️
Love my home 🏡 San Francisco
Sad to see, and therefore to say, that these days of glory are receding fast into the darkness as greed, corruption, identity politics, and cultural/moral decay engulf this once great nation.
Yeah screw people for wanting to do what they want, even if it doesn't hurt anyone else, right?
@@rubiconnn I’m sure s/he hates emancipated people as much as the next ageing reactionary, but s/he seems more concerned with the very real cultural and moral decay, and the erosion of social cohesion, which is dragging the USA down. Greedy psychopaths own America now. An empire in the throes of decline.
Designed without a computer. These guys knew math.
I Especially like the long cables supporting the bridge spun with smaller cables.
After the cable was made there is now way they can get in there and fix it.
All they can do is paint paint paint paint ;)
I wonder if the bridge will last forever or if it is going to be rebuilt one day.
well, i do think that they used computers to do some calculations alright. those computers were as big as a twin door fridge
and had those large tapes reels that could hold a couple of hundred kilobytes of information wich is now just enough to write
a letter on a pc or a simple drawing in ms paint, but they sure were already used in the 60's.
ronnie doorzon In the 60’s, yes they would have been used. However, the bridge was built during the 30’s.
@@ronniedoorzon1576 this wasnt built in the '60s, dude. its pretty clear throughout the film that it was built in the 30's. no computers.
Awesome video, thank you!! I always thought it should have been painted a gold color, not orange. That may have confused some though, thinking that was what it was named after. 😁
Probably the most cinematically destroyed bridge in history.
Huh? What do you mean?
A simply terrific film and production, thanks for posting this --- where do you find these wonderful films?
Fantastic
GOD Bless America
Thank you so much
GOD isn’t real. America is forsaken.
Amazing, thanks for this high quality documentary.
Wonderful.
TH-cam is bombarding your videos with long and ridiculous ads. There is no way that we can continue to watch these clips without skipping the ads.
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LEE JACOBS is the cause of the ads thanks to "AdRev for a 3rd Party (on behalf of CPM Archive Series)" trying to cash in on other people's work.
@5:14-5:47 it’s interesting to see the bridge all piled up on the ground.
Film print is the Kodachrome answer print made for Bethlehem Steel. It always gives me chills when I run the film and see that Bethlehem emblem come on at the end. They are non-existant now.
I love the Bay area. The Wharf, Chinatown, Mission Street. Haight & Ashbury
...and all the homeless, the people shitting in the streets and in front of businesses. All the hypodermic needles laying around everywhere. The rampant flood of people with aids. The unchecked crime and lawlessness because this is a "woke" city. Ah yes, the beautiful bay area.
I used to love it too, before all the moral rot and societal decay of The Party.
back when no one was entitled because there was work to do.
Хвала и почёт человеку-творцу!
I will miss America.
Glad this wasn't a "bridge too far"
I just with the Periscope Film banner was way smaller as it obscures much of the awesome historical film.
East coast building the west? Imagine that. Now the west holds those who couldn’t make it indy east. OSHA would have a field day with this lmao
all were hired for this project 👍 all they needed
San Andreas Fault runs parallel to the bridge about a mile off shore....
The president of Bethlehem, Gene Grace, was so incensed to see these bridge members fabricated in Pottstown, PA by McClintick-Marshall and bearing their name and not Bethlehem, he bought the company and changed the name to Bethlehem Fabricated Steel Construction. Those fellows did not mess around.
Built by "rugged men", love it, truth is is no longer permitted.
A fine film!
Joseph Strauss Head Engineer said, "I've never spent the public's money at a 3 to 1 rate more usefully, 3 to me , one for the bridge " 1936. Fact.
He earned it...did you see how long it took for the calculations? These days, they would take the money and not build the bridge at all...BTW, where's our bullet train ?.
Gave this one a like regardless of the footage obscured by that irksome timer black box bs that blocked out so much of this footage
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Someone can explain why they used in those days the panama canal instead of the transcontinental railways to transport steel materiel to west ?
What would SF be like without the bridge?
nobody:...
me: visual pleasures on pre-constructions 21:06
There were several of my grandfathers friends that had 30 years at Bethlehem Steel. Then bust in 2000. Now a casino occupies the spot.
So very sad...
Michael you just have to move on and find new things to do
The museum still pays tribute on the campus!
The Golden Gate Bridge 80,000 miles of wire enough to make it go 3 times round the world.
The lead in title gives the impression that the Golden Gate Bridge was built in 1960, but it was actually built in 1933. Remember now, that bridge was designed with Slide Rules not computers.
A slide rule is a computer.
The short film is from 1960!
@@skyecreamer714 Actually a slide rule is the tool, your brain was the computer. Todays computers cut the engineering time down to almost nothing by comparison, so NO a slide rule is not a computer by today's standards. You are actually splitting hairs my friend.
I was waiting for Godzilla.
This must have been a great job opportunity for a lot of people during the great depression. Perhaps under Roosevelts "New Deal".
Rivets are riveting.
But then, just who isn't riveted by rivets?
A welder?
Very informative and very inspiring. A wee bit corny here and there.
Last!!
Obi Wan has taught you well.
The road bed actually does have a slight curve. On the 50th anniversary, the bridge roadway was opened to pedestrians for a few hours. There were so many people the deck flattened, creating the highest stress levels on the cables.
Comment 200 baloney. Stopped traffic on the bridge is ten times or more what a crowd of people would weigh. 😂🙄
The gangers had some stones working without harnesses
Imagine if somebody spoke like that in real life.
you think this was imaginary?
I wonder how many TV screens have the periscope title and numbers that burn in the screen from these videos on their tvs after watching quite a few
i know of atleast one, mine
1960s film apologizing for the video quality of the following film. Just like the TH-cam comment section for any video pre smartphone. Lol!
I would like to see this on a non google based platform. Please.
Hey! What ever happened to our bullet train?😮
8:03 That's What She Said
If I had a nickel for every time I crossed that bridge, I would be a millionaire, lol 😆
24:56
I don't think those tack welds got any penetration! Wouldn't pass muster today...
I hear the rebar welds in the Three Gorges Dam are shoddy, too.
Fingers crossed!
The entire bridge deck was replaced between 1982 and 1986
Word. Just making sparks.
2 different time lines for sure.
International Orange..... Inter
"A Legion Of Rugged Men"... in San Francisco?
.... not that there's anything wrong with that!
Narrarator looks like he could be Dan Rathers father.......
I wonder who the narrator is.
Now if they could just build one big enough to bridge America together.
You can only bridge stupidity with education and the USA gets that from TikTok and Twitter these days. It’s fascinating to watch an empire in terminal decline.
Notice nobody says anything about the Corruption in the building of the Bridge, How over 50 % of the cables where Sub-Par but would still carry the weight of the Bridge.
Now the number one chosen suicide destination in the world.
They dont go into detail about how in the hell they built the base underwater?! All they said is it took a year and a half
They constructed a dry hole and cleaned it out down to bedrock.
@@neilpuckett359 thanks for simplifying. Sounds so easy!
He Was Dead When I Got There who was dead when you got there?
Id wager that they focused on the steel erection mostly since the film was put out by Bethlehem Steel. The piles were concrete (although reinforced with steel).
The video would make a great drinking game...every time the narrator says the words erect, erected, erecting or erection, you have to drink a shot! I don’t think you could make it to the end without passing out. 🤣
PeriscopeFilm, this must be a fresh scan. I've seen this before with pale and washed out colors. Now all of a sudden they seem clear and correct. almost Kodak Ektachrome-like.
What's the story Morning Glory ? You're certainly not doing an immense restoration work. The jumps in picture and sound is a showoff of that. Have you found a new way of scanning or better source material ?
Some times I've caught myself in wanting to order certain strips on made to order BluRays, but the very scare of pricing prohibits me from carrying out any orders.
I bet a lot of movie/film-collectors would love to handpick their personal favorites and have a couple of BR's made with maximum available bitrates specially for themselves to enjoy in their homes.
So how about showing examples of pricings ? You know.....8-10 filmstrips on one BluRay: Price $x.xx
I could live with your www address as a watermark and frame numbers running, if 2-3-4 BluRays would contain my personal favorites at maximum bitrate 35-40Mbit/s at $10 a piece.
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@@PeriscopeFilm Thanks. I'd give it some serious considerations, of course.
Targeted for nin e levin style attack soon...
I laughed every time the narrator said, "erection." 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
So, you're what, 13?
@@LiLi-or2gm Well, I'm 54 and have nothing to be ashamed of income, education, or lifestyle-wise....and I also giggled a bit each time. Maybe you'd enjoy life more if you were a little less uptight?
As did I....
@@nonnobissolum So you're confirming you're 13 then?
@@R.U.1.2. Sure, I can be 13 for you if that's important to your worldview. I mean, if boys can be girls, and girls can be boys, and both can be neither in today's world, why not....
The MOB is probably tearing down the Joseph Strauss statue right now. from Ray in Michigan 6-23-2020
Ha ha - He said "Erection", like 72 times!
Mackinaw Bridge. Out
It was just reported that the bridge is racist, and must be demolished immediately.
🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣! Everything is racist today, including math! Inferiority complex at it's best!
And now 80 years later they cant even decide to paint it or not !!!!!! Unfuckibeliveable.
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Very irritating time-code in the middle of the picture!!
Nothing is worse than the elements that delay your erection.
Not one safety helmet or hi-vis jacked in sight
There were some displays of hard hats, but these brave builders risked there lives on a daily basis. As did many in the steel mills.
Oops, their lives
Too damn right, and where are the children, they should be working on this too!!!
...And 11 deaths during construction even with the safety nets.
Isaiah 27:6 In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
Isaiah 61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.”
Too bad the Israelites do not know who they are! Roman's 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
When Gods people are loyal to God, they are blessed and fill the earth with fruit. When they forget God, you get the U.S. of today! Wakeup children of Israel!
And now we have BLM and gender politics. Way to go!
We are fast becoming a third world nation.
@@garymckee8857 “Becoming”?
And now you have a TV pillow salesman urging the ex-president to overthrow the legitimately-elected federal government, members of congress openly trying to form a white-supremacy caucus, referring to Hitler as “the fuhrer” while the defeated former president urges domestic terrorists in Auschwitz t-shirts declaring “six million weren’t enough’” to arm themselves and storm the nations capitol. You’re not part of the problem, you ARE the problem. You’re destroying America.
Not as amazing as the pyramids though
Can't wait to hear the day it falls down.
TRX Tech why!?
I couldn't stand that stupid and annoying music for more than 40 seconds. 👎