1956 BRITISH STEEL INDUSTRY FILM "STEEL ROAD" HENRY BESSEMER MINES & MINING 99084

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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 is explained and shown. What is needed and how it is produced is explained. The Blower watches his gauges. Intense, extensive footage shows us the process of making steel. People watch the color of the flame. Iron has been made before elements are made to make it into steel. Arduous process of making Steel is shown (8:36-15:40). The final processes of making steel is shown. Everything is explained and shown (15:41-19:45). The steel is just about done and cut. And a machine smoothes it out. Afterwards, steel beams have been created and the countries to where they will be shipped are painted on them. A train pulls the loads of beams (19:46-22:20). Steel beams are then used on a new part of a train railway. Workers put the new track down. Bessemer created the Steel age. A new age train flies across the tracks (22:21-23:24). End credits (23:25-23:38).
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[@WAL_DC-6B]

Looks like at about 6:10 Thomas's ("the Tank Engine") relatives got the less glamorous task of shunting ore cars at Workington. All kidding aside, nice color and sound 1950s industrial film illustrating the long, gone Bessemer steel making process that was very instrumental in accelerating the industrial age. Thanks for sharing!

[@oliversparks1459]

Superb Now i Know what Blast Furnace Makes and What a Beesemer Converter Does At 56 Yrs Old and i Grew up in Scunny

[@allandavis8201]

It’s a pity that the mighty steel industry we had up to the 1970s is no more, and what little of it that’s left is owned by foreign companies, it still produces the finest steel in the world but it’s just a fraction of what the world needs, so inferior steel is used in huge infrastructure projects around the world that has led to many failures of the structures and causing many many deaths. Who is to blame for this? The answer is many fold, politicians, demand for steel dying during recessions, politicians, foreign companies being allowed to buy up British steel and closing down plants, plants that admittedly were not making a profit but the products they made were specialised and were difficult to make profit on without the price being so high nobody would buy it and used inferior quality steel instead, politicians, and last but by no means least the UNIONS, whilst their demands were not unreasonable they made them at a time when they were not justifiable or economically viable, Arthur Scargill and Maggie Thatcher butting heads, police and pickets butting heads (literally) companies trying to keep coal mining, steel, and other heavy industries going by using “scabs” (non union labour), so more head butting, and politicians doing what the do best, nothing, SNAFU. And when the dust settled (literally) the Steel, Coal and most heavy industries were no more. The nearest large town to the small town I lived in, Corby in Northamptonshire, went from a bustling reasonably affluent town to a ghost town very very quickly when the demise came about, and that is probably worse than the actual issues that caused the virtual extinction of British Steel. 😀😔🤬👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@zebedeezebedee]

you mention Scargill ... recently I thought to myself he was exactly what Thatcher wanted, a road to the quicker demise of coal. If Scargill had never existed mineworkers would not have lost a years pay and probably the coal industry might have lasted a little longer. Makes one wonder quite who was Scargill working for??

[@jacksonirving4594]

Mr Bessemer fed and clothed a lot of people..

[@rustedrailsmokes]

very cool

[@lionvillelion]

closed in 2006.

[@satanofficial3902]

Star stuff.

[@alwaysbearded1]

At 2:50 he apparently discovered the Uterus furnace.

[@jacksonirving4594]

And you've got that get Don King shouting " only in America".

[@alansharp307]

Men of iron

[@stephanesonneville]

_We're only making plans for Nigel_

[@amymckinney1397]

hey it fake