Now. this 1938 movie made by the US Steel has become more valuable and precious, because it include information about the open-hearth steel production process, which in 1938 prevailed in both Allied countries and Axis countries including Japan, but these days almost all forgotten steelmaking process. Thank you for your sharing this movie. A Japanese-Japanese ex-Japanese steel company employee.
As a Steelworker for last 25 years at a major mill in Northwest Indiana, it's amazing how little the steelmaking process has changed from these days shown here. What is also amazing is how many new people we hire in current times don't make it past their first year due to failing drug tests or a lot just quit because they can't handle doing shift work or hard work in general and pass on great pay and benefits.
I was fortunate enough to tour the Bethlehem steel mill in Sparrows Point Maryland in the early 80's and see this first hand. My God it was like hell on earth. Huge respect fior these men. This was by no means an easy job.
Not sure I could take the heat but I would like to see this as you did. Most of us never stop to think where all our steel comes from. These folks work very hard to make it happen. And nowadays it's a science to make so many different types of steel, it's just awesome..
I have been learning about Sparrows Point lately, what a huge mill that was. Seems that steel workers employed there had a great deal of pride in the mill. Sad the super mills are all gone now. In the future, I believe we will regret not being able to produce our own steel
@@kevinwheatcroft True... steel WON World War 2 (well, that an oil, but steel allowed us to build ships faster than they could sink them, guns faster than the enemy could blow them up, and the tanks and armor to just roll over the enemy and blow them to h3ll... plus the innumerable support trucks and equipment that allowed us to beat the Nazis and Japanese in terms of logistics... the Germans were still using mostly horse and wagons for logistics; trucks were for motorized transport near the fronts. Japanese logistics got no further than the bottom of the ocean once our submarine force came into full effect, basically starving them for resources. At the end the Germans had the most advanced weapons in the world in things like the V-2 missiles and Me-262 jet fighters, but they were SO starved for fuel they had to use oxen to pull the jets out to the runways; they couldn't spare the fuel they'd burn to taxi to the runway from their revetments! Japan was sending school kids into the hills every day to dig pine roots to make synthetic aviation gasoline as well. Oil and steel won the war for the Allies, and lack of it killed the Germans and Japanese in the end. Couple years ago I bought a sheet of 1/4 inch steel plate from a local welding supply to re-deck a shredder for the farm... I went and picked it up when it came in, and when I got it home I wrestled it off the back of my truck and up onto sawhorses so I could measure and cut off the pieces I needed with the acetylene torch. I was shocked and amazed when I flipped the sheet up onto the sawhorses and saw it stenciled "made in KAZAKHSTAN"!!! Basically as far away from SE TX as you can possibly get and still be on Earth LOL:) I was like, "What a sorry state of affairs it is when it's cheaper and easier to get steel from KAZAKHSTAN than it is to get it from the US or anywhere closer for that matter!" My next thought was "WTF are we gonna do if we have to fight another big war someday like that?? It's a h3ll of a long way through a lot of enemy territory or territory easily interdicted by an enemy to get steel from Kazakhstan to the USA LOL:)"... Oh well... Later! OL J R :)
My first job 4 days after graduating high school in 1977 was working in sparrows point as an Ironworker. There were over 1000 of us working to upgrade the steel mill. I’m now 62 with 44 years in ironworking and often think back to that place and time.
I was on the platform when the crucible was turned and a sample taken. I couldn't get back far enough. I felt as though I'd burst into flames at any second! What a way to make a living.
I ran the melt operations for a significantly large foundry company out in the Midwest. It was hard work but I look at these old steel mill workers and my experience pales in comparison.
I once heard that the more divorced we become from an industry, the more we romanticize it. Such is that of the farmer. Today some 3% or less Americans work on or directly adjacent to farms. But my god if everyone doesn’t want to be one. Even with the arduous nature of the old world, people still dream of going down to the river and panning for gold. I don’t mean to talk down on any of these occupations. In fact, I think I’d more people understood the direct impact of their work, the tangible nature of it, they’d be a lot more satisfied. I think that’s what comes with the farm, the mine, the heavy industry. Good tangible. Heavy unmistakable impact. Everyone wants to feel like their doing something for the world
He's voice was full of good old American pride. Very uplifting from the narration, music to the product itself. I love the style of old films like this. It makes you appreciate the hard work the men did...... and the little ladies 😁
When I was an 8th-grader in Colorado Springs in 1961, we took a Saturday all day school trip to the CF&I steel plant in Pueblo. Rode a Sante Fe train right to the steel yards. Once there, we spent lots of time in the open hearth furnace area, the soaking pits, the rolling mills and the nail and fence making mills. Was an absolute thrill to see the plant in operation. The highlight, at least for me, was witnessing the tapping of an open hearth batch. They did it with an explosive charge that shot some sort of ceramic projectile into the tapping hole. Scared the crap out of all of us but it was like something I've not seen since. I can't imagine the OSHA and safety issues in doing this today.
from 1970 to 1982, I was a Millwright @ USSteel Homestead Works 100" plate mill...similar to what we see here from when the slab falls out of the furnace...i mostly worked the shear end, but spent good bit of time on the rolling end...a lot of 16 hour days...rolled a lot of armor plate during the VietNam war...
I worked in the roll shop at the 100", and also as an inspector at the end of the shear line. When we rolled floor plate, it was a good payday that week. Laid off from Carrie Furnace in 82. Was in millwright apprenticeship program.
@@jessebaca2750 Great grandfather lost his arm in the battle of Homestead, grandfather superintendent of plant protection, father division superintendent bloom and structural mill. It's 4 a.m. on Saturday and I'm going to work
How sad it is to see all of this technical and industrial expertise that is now lost, after having been largely developed here! As steel making is a barometer of the industrial activity, this loss reflects the fact that we have become a consuming foreign-dependent Society, rather than an innovative self-sufficient one. 2022/01/24.
Unless you are British you are wrong. Most industrialized nations still produce specialty steel. Only the common types are exclusively sourced from China.
Absolutely false, we never lost it. It's just but built upon for generations to come after these videos and it's very much evolved within our manufacturing processes now. Heed thyself
This is a beautiful video. Like taking a time machine back to when American citizens weren't slaves. When men and women didn't lothe waking up in the morning and going to work. When people had purpose
I completely understand the capitalist propaganda in this video. I also understand that capitalism is the best creator of wealth and prosperity for the vast majority of the people that live under it so far discovered. It's not perfect, but it's taken more people out of poverty than any other system, it's the lack of moral values and Marxism that has brought us all to the point were at now.
@@joshuafroughton4171 Marxism? Obviously, you couldn't even define it properly if asked to on an exam. Typical Republican attempt to divert attention from the real reason. Republican tax changes paid for by corporations.
All you need to get you through the day at a steel mill is smokes, chew tobacco a ice cold pop and some crunchy snacks.... also having lunch with your lady friend makes the day go by faster
Narrator has me so damn excited I was ready to go work. Then I looked out the window and thought ehhh. Not quite yet. Ive already had a day of sheet strip now blooms.
All this high danger work areas and operations and very nearly no safety equipment in sight, health and safety inspectors would be apoplectic with rage to see all the breaches of the regulations that are in place today, and the plant/dockyard/ship and mine owners would go broke just trying to comply with the H&S Gremlins catalogue of breaches, but back then safety took a back seat, today you have to have a 30 minute safety Briefing just to make a cup of tea. Thanks for another excellent look back into industrial heritage, very interesting and informative. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Mis respetos para estos gringos, su mentalidad, sus sueños y determinación los ha hechos ser los mejores en todo.. es así como se forma la grandeza en los seres humanos, mucho que aprender de ellos...
This was one of Roland Reed's first industrial film productions. He was previously a film editor for Chesterfield Pictures (a "Poverty Row" Hollywood studio) before forming his own company. By 1950, he was also producing television programs as well {Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER", "THE BEULAH SHOW", "MY LITTLE MARGIE", "ROCKY JONES- SPACE RANGER", "WATERFRONT"}.
Interesting to read that. I'm stopping the video because the narration is over the top for me. I love the industrial-propaganda style of that age, but this version, this director's or producer's choice for actual tone is just too far. It has the feel of over-urgency, like someone desperate to be heard and be believed. Your words make sense now. Maybe it was just his first try. Maybe he toned it down after, for others. Thank you!
My father worked in the US Steel Homestead works from the 1950's to the 80's right up to the demise of the Homestead works. I don't remember his actual job title but I remember all the interesting work stories he shared with me. He and his fellow workmen were American heroes in my eyes and what a group of hard working bunch of guys who helped make this country what it is today.
Wonderful old color film of steel making in the United States in the late 1930s. Judging from the "lake boats" and EJ&E (Elgin, Joliet and Eastern RR) steam locomotive moving the "bottle car" from the blast furnace, this could have been mostly filmed at U.S Steel's Gary Works (Indiana) or South Works (Chicago, IL) or both. Bessemer convertors, as seen in this movie, existed at the older South Works, but never at the Gary Works. Then again, perhaps a shot of Bessemer operations at one of U.S. Steel's Pennsylvania mills was spliced into this movie. I agree with some who pointed out that early 1950s cars are seen in this film. It could be the film was updated a bit in the early '50s, but most of it was still shot in the late 1930s.
@@ArmpitStudios After the US entered WW2 in 1941, production and development of civilian cars was stopped, so that the manufacturers could concentrate on military goods. When the civilian car production started again after WW2, the manufacturers picked up where they left and kept on manufacturing their models from the late 1930s to early 1940s. So many early 1950s cars were actually designed in the late 1930s, early 1940s. As for colour film, e.g. Disney's Snowhite was shot on colour film in the late 1930s.
@@jankrusat2150 I know all about car production around WWII (not WW2), but no, designs popular in the '50s were NOT designed 20 years earlier. This is NOT a '30s film. As for color film, sure, very rich movie studios had it, but not small-time documentary makers like made this.
I love how casual these guys in the furnace areas are, just smoking a pipe like they're Sherlock Holmes. The modern Chinese versions all look stressed out. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.
Am reading Magnetic Mountain - Stalinism as a Civilization by historian Stephen Kotkin about the Soviet Union’s almost comically audacious effort to construct the Magnitogorsk steel plant “from scratch” in the southern Urals near an enormous source of iron ore. I realized I really didn’t know how steel was made in the 1930s and this film is excellent. Designed by the same USA engineers and metallurgists Arthur McKee & Company that building most of USA’s state-of-the-art plants, Magnitogorsk had to be built and run by an almost illiterate and constantly changing army of peasants on an absurdly unrealistic 24 month schedule. “Steel” represented “modernization” and industrial independence. Interestingly, the super-hyped significance of having an independent high performance “steel industry” in one’s country carried a huge amount of political importance. It still does today.
From 1976 to 2017 worked at Inland Steel co. to Ispat Inland to Arcelor Mittal, what a hell of a experience. From 35,000 employees to maybe less than 5,000. Guess who help destroy it? Wilbur Ross!
We need an America like this again. Men and women working for prosperity and providing for their families. Able to be proud of themselves and our country. No LGBTQ+ NO DEI No Liberal BS like we have today. Just proud to be an American 🇺🇸
Makes me wish I had worked in a steel plant, at l;east for a year or two. Amazing if you can do this job for 30+ years, and still have your health. also, how did they make the machines that do all the processing and shaping? the supports and foundations must be beyond massive, and the moving parts are either easy to replace or last a life time.
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Coke. Its the ingredient in the process. If you thought it was hot in a smelting plant, just wait until you go to real hell. There are no shifts in hell. Only eternity. Choose your faith wisely.
At 17:30 ,I can't stop seeing nubs,,nubs on those ingnots just like the nubs we see on all megalithic constructions ,that came from an advanced society that proceeds our own.
Yea, that's the thing, and the kind nudge to Periscope would be, "gee, maybe this was a recut from '48." It's possible this was the one place they needed an edit to bring it up to date. Notice there was none of the self congratulation for winning the war so common until about 1960.
Secondary Steel making was not developed at that time. So it is such magical. Now we have well defined processes and accurate gauges the magic is lost. Still the drama of the drama is more than the manicured movie of today.
It's interesting seeing the dynamic of what got the american family by back in the day. Jobs deemed so painfully laborsome most would refuse to do yet the system would always need steel and would never stop till they we're shut down for labor export to other countries.
Americans used to take pride in their WORK. We made the best of almost everything, and took the time to make quality products. We could reform our government, and rebuild our manufacturing sector. We can Make America Great Again. It is really stupid how You Tube and 🍎 make it so hard to type in the phrase of words symbolized by MAGA… and other words and phrases.
High temperature itself does the steering, I think. The more temperature the more drifting there is in the hot liquid. Try dissolving salt in cold water without stirring, and try the same with hot or boiling water, I think it's an effect in that sense. I know that in secondary refinement the mixing happens just by heating and keeping the ladle warm
@@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 The US wasn't fighting the war, but they were making some preparations for what they expected. Plus we were helping Canada and the UK. The lend/lease program was signed in early 41, and had been functioning for a year before that. So, steel production wasn't just a casual concern.
Those guys used to have to work a 24hr swing-shift every other Sunday when the shifts changed. I grew up outside Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point and I remember how we had to be especially quiet if someone's Dad was trying to get some sleep before going on night shift. Yes, it's a dirty, dangerous industry but it's not wise to depend on outside/offshore suppliers for steel, not wise at all.
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This narrator is KILLING IT. "by their watches and their blue tint glasses shall you know them". Legend.
i think they are blue light filter glasses. but i could be wrong.
Yes!
I wish narrators today had the excitement and passion this one does. He LIKES his job, and it shows.
Almost. He said. "Shall *_YE_* know them"
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Blows my mind that once upon a time in this country you could support a whole family with a job like these men worked!
Still can.
@Yuck Foutube what?
And easily buy a house and two automobiles.
@@calsavestheworld Two cars? The average family didn't start having two cars until the 1980's
This is actually a really good paying job still, ha
They sure don't make documentary films like they used to any more. The way they talk and the beautiful music is so nostalgic.
Now. this 1938 movie made by the US Steel has become more valuable and precious, because it include information about the open-hearth
steel production process, which in 1938 prevailed in both Allied countries and Axis countries including Japan, but these days almost all forgotten steelmaking process. Thank you for your sharing this movie. A Japanese-Japanese ex-Japanese steel company employee.
As a Steelworker for last 25 years at a major mill in Northwest Indiana, it's amazing how little the steelmaking process has changed from these days shown here. What is also amazing is how many new people we hire in current times don't make it past their first year due to failing drug tests or a lot just quit because they can't handle doing shift work or hard work in general and pass on great pay and benefits.
I was fortunate enough to tour the Bethlehem steel mill in Sparrows Point Maryland in the early 80's and see this first hand. My God it was like hell on earth. Huge respect fior these men. This was by no means an easy job.
Not sure I could take the heat but I would like to see this as you did. Most of us never stop to think where all our steel comes from. These folks work very hard to make it happen. And nowadays it's a science to make so many different types of steel, it's just awesome..
I have been learning about Sparrows Point lately, what a huge mill that was. Seems that steel workers employed there had a great deal of pride in the mill. Sad the super mills are all gone now. In the future, I believe we will regret not being able to produce our own steel
@@kevinwheatcroft True... steel WON World War 2 (well, that an oil, but steel allowed us to build ships faster than they could sink them, guns faster than the enemy could blow them up, and the tanks and armor to just roll over the enemy and blow them to h3ll... plus the innumerable support trucks and equipment that allowed us to beat the Nazis and Japanese in terms of logistics... the Germans were still using mostly horse and wagons for logistics; trucks were for motorized transport near the fronts. Japanese logistics got no further than the bottom of the ocean once our submarine force came into full effect, basically starving them for resources. At the end the Germans had the most advanced weapons in the world in things like the V-2 missiles and Me-262 jet fighters, but they were SO starved for fuel they had to use oxen to pull the jets out to the runways; they couldn't spare the fuel they'd burn to taxi to the runway from their revetments! Japan was sending school kids into the hills every day to dig pine roots to make synthetic aviation gasoline as well. Oil and steel won the war for the Allies, and lack of it killed the Germans and Japanese in the end.
Couple years ago I bought a sheet of 1/4 inch steel plate from a local welding supply to re-deck a shredder for the farm... I went and picked it up when it came in, and when I got it home I wrestled it off the back of my truck and up onto sawhorses so I could measure and cut off the pieces I needed with the acetylene torch. I was shocked and amazed when I flipped the sheet up onto the sawhorses and saw it stenciled "made in KAZAKHSTAN"!!! Basically as far away from SE TX as you can possibly get and still be on Earth LOL:) I was like, "What a sorry state of affairs it is when it's cheaper and easier to get steel from KAZAKHSTAN than it is to get it from the US or anywhere closer for that matter!" My next thought was "WTF are we gonna do if we have to fight another big war someday like that?? It's a h3ll of a long way through a lot of enemy territory or territory easily interdicted by an enemy to get steel from Kazakhstan to the USA LOL:)"... Oh well...
Later! OL J R :)
My first job 4 days after graduating high school in 1977 was working in sparrows point as an Ironworker. There were over 1000 of us working to upgrade the steel mill. I’m now 62 with 44 years in ironworking and often think back to that place and time.
@@charlesneilio7861 that whole area became so poor after Bethlehem Steel shut down there
I was on the platform when the crucible was turned and a sample taken. I couldn't get back far enough. I felt as though I'd burst into flames at any second! What a way to make a living.
Confirm the year if you can...LOL
I ran the melt operations for a significantly large foundry company out in the Midwest. It was hard work but I look at these old steel mill workers and my experience pales in comparison.
There is something incredibly romantic about these tough, dirty, noisy, dangerous jobs!
I once heard that the more divorced we become from an industry, the more we romanticize it. Such is that of the farmer. Today some 3% or less Americans work on or directly adjacent to farms. But my god if everyone doesn’t want to be one. Even with the arduous nature of the old world, people still dream of going down to the river and panning for gold.
I don’t mean to talk down on any of these occupations. In fact, I think I’d more people understood the direct impact of their work, the tangible nature of it, they’d be a lot more satisfied. I think that’s what comes with the farm, the mine, the heavy industry. Good tangible. Heavy unmistakable impact. Everyone wants to feel like their doing something for the world
Yah it's called death by cancer not only lying for the workers but those living near it
I love the enthusiasm and passion of the narrator.
He's voice was full of good old American pride. Very uplifting from the narration, music to the product itself. I love the style of old films like this. It makes you appreciate the hard work the men did...... and the little ladies 😁
When I was an 8th-grader in Colorado Springs in 1961, we took a Saturday all day school trip to the CF&I steel plant in Pueblo. Rode a Sante Fe train right to the steel yards. Once there, we spent lots of time in the open hearth furnace area, the soaking pits, the rolling mills and the nail and fence making mills. Was an absolute thrill to see the plant in operation. The highlight, at least for me, was witnessing the tapping of an open hearth batch. They did it with an explosive charge that shot some sort of ceramic projectile into the tapping hole. Scared the crap out of all of us but it was like something I've not seen since. I can't imagine the OSHA and safety issues in doing this today.
Steel making is a fascinating process. I'm happy to hear that you were able to witness some of it. Not many people get to experience such things.
from 1970 to 1982, I was a Millwright @ USSteel Homestead Works 100" plate mill...similar to what we see here from when the slab falls out of the furnace...i mostly worked the shear end, but spent good bit of time on the rolling end...a lot of 16 hour days...rolled a lot of armor plate during the VietNam war...
I worked in the roll shop at the 100", and also as an inspector at the end of the shear line. When we rolled floor plate, it was a good payday that week. Laid off from Carrie Furnace in 82. Was in millwright apprenticeship program.
What state was this in?
@@jessebaca2750 Historic Homestead Pa.
@@matthewh117 A lost trade these Men played a significant role in history
@@jessebaca2750 Great grandfather lost his arm in the battle of Homestead, grandfather superintendent of plant protection, father division superintendent bloom and structural mill. It's 4 a.m. on Saturday and I'm going to work
LOVE that big gritty industrial stuff - the good old days.
You’ve met my wife ?
The old school power hammers at foundries are one of my favorites.
absolutely beautiful film
As a pilot I use to fly over Sparrows Point just outside Baltimore at night. It was incredible when they were pouring.
What impressed me the most was to learn that in 1938 there were people driving a 1952 Studebaker and 1952 Roadmaster @35:18
And the highway system a couple minutes later..
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Marty where we're going, we won't need steel!
it's only 7.38 PM, what's the problem?😊
How sad it is to see all of this technical and industrial expertise that is now lost, after having been largely developed here! As steel making is a barometer of the industrial activity, this loss reflects the fact that we have become a consuming foreign-dependent Society, rather than an innovative self-sufficient one. 2022/01/24.
Unless you are British you are wrong. Most industrialized nations still produce specialty steel.
Only the common types are exclusively sourced from China.
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You can thank the previous generation for that.
Absolutely false, we never lost it. It's just but built upon for generations to come after these videos and it's very much evolved within our manufacturing processes now. Heed thyself
A great deal of steel is still manufactured in the developed world.
Wow! They really took the making of this film to the goal line.
I miss America
This is a beautiful video. Like taking a time machine back to when American citizens weren't slaves. When men and women didn't lothe waking up in the morning and going to work. When people had purpose
Do you understand the narrator is a propagandist for the Capitalists? Listen closely to what he says.
I completely understand the capitalist propaganda in this video. I also understand that capitalism is the best creator of wealth and prosperity for the vast majority of the people that live under it so far discovered. It's not perfect, but it's taken more people out of poverty than any other system, it's the lack of moral values and Marxism that has brought us all to the point were at now.
@@joshuafroughton4171 Marxism? Obviously, you couldn't even define it properly if asked to on an exam. Typical Republican attempt to divert attention from the real reason. Republican tax changes paid for by corporations.
I'm in awe of the men who designed and built the steel mills and all the men that operated it. Without them, life as we know it would be so different
It's diffferent now days but the guts, sparks and grit is still there.
Through these portals walked the greatest steel workers...
Now supposed men all have that dooshy anteefa beard look about em.
Absolutely brilliant thanks for posting
VALUABLE INFORMATION
It's like watching pioneers
All you need to get you through the day at a steel mill is smokes, chew tobacco a ice cold pop and some crunchy snacks.... also having lunch with your lady friend makes the day go by faster
WWII broke out when we were at the top of our game.
This film is amazing
The 57 studebaker had a 289 cubic inch engine , my neighbor had one when I was a kid.
Narrator has me so damn excited I was ready to go work. Then I looked out the window and thought ehhh. Not quite yet. Ive already had a day of sheet strip now blooms.
Congratulations for a superb production. From Australia
All this high danger work areas and operations and very nearly no safety equipment in sight, health and safety inspectors would be apoplectic with rage to see all the breaches of the regulations that are in place today, and the plant/dockyard/ship and mine owners would go broke just trying to comply with the H&S Gremlins catalogue of breaches, but back then safety took a back seat, today you have to have a 30 minute safety Briefing just to make a cup of tea.
Thanks for another excellent look back into industrial heritage, very interesting and informative. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
People were trained to have common sense and know what they are doing back then. You burn yourself once you learned not to do it again...
Hell if you did not have cut off limbs or missing parts you were not in the club.
Right before WW2, didn't have time to worry about that nonsense when nazi Germany and tojo Japan going all out for world domination!
Mis respetos para estos gringos, su mentalidad, sus sueños y determinación los ha hechos ser los mejores en todo.. es así como se forma la grandeza en los seres humanos, mucho que aprender de ellos...
This was one of Roland Reed's first industrial film productions. He was previously a film editor for Chesterfield Pictures (a "Poverty Row" Hollywood studio) before forming his own company. By 1950, he was also producing television programs as well {Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER", "THE BEULAH SHOW", "MY LITTLE MARGIE", "ROCKY JONES- SPACE RANGER", "WATERFRONT"}.
Interesting to read that. I'm stopping the video because the narration is over the top for me. I love the industrial-propaganda style of that age, but this version, this director's or producer's choice for actual tone is just too far. It has the feel of over-urgency, like someone desperate to be heard and be believed. Your words make sense now. Maybe it was just his first try. Maybe he toned it down after, for others. Thank you!
You're welcome! Reed continued to produce industrial and public relation films through the mid-1960's.
Edwin C. Hill was a well known radio news commentator of his day. However, like Lowell Thomas, he was also available for narrating films such as this.
My father worked in the US Steel Homestead works from the 1950's to the 80's right up to the demise of the Homestead works.
I don't remember his actual job title but I remember all the interesting work stories he shared with me.
He and his fellow workmen were American heroes in my eyes and what a group of hard working bunch of guys who helped make this country what it is today.
mind sharing some of the stories please?
He might have been in this film, as it was made in the 1950s.
Wonderful old color film of steel making in the United States in the late 1930s. Judging from the "lake boats" and EJ&E (Elgin, Joliet and Eastern RR) steam locomotive moving the "bottle car" from the blast furnace, this could have been mostly filmed at U.S Steel's Gary Works (Indiana) or South Works (Chicago, IL) or both. Bessemer convertors, as seen in this movie, existed at the older South Works, but never at the Gary Works. Then again, perhaps a shot of Bessemer operations at one of U.S. Steel's Pennsylvania mills was spliced into this movie. I agree with some who pointed out that early 1950s cars are seen in this film. It could be the film was updated a bit in the early '50s, but most of it was still shot in the late 1930s.
They didn't have color film widely available until the 50's. There was a lot of stuff from the 30's around in the 50's because of the war.
@@southjerseysound7340 They also didn't have '50s cars in the '30s, as seen around 35:15.
@@ArmpitStudios After the US entered WW2 in 1941, production and development of civilian cars was stopped, so that the manufacturers could concentrate on military goods. When the civilian car production started again after WW2, the manufacturers picked up where they left and kept on manufacturing their models from the late 1930s to early 1940s. So many early 1950s cars were actually designed in the late 1930s, early 1940s. As for colour film, e.g. Disney's Snowhite was shot on colour film in the late 1930s.
@@jankrusat2150 I know all about car production around WWII (not WW2), but no, designs popular in the '50s were NOT designed 20 years earlier. This is NOT a '30s film. As for color film, sure, very rich movie studios had it, but not small-time documentary makers like made this.
@@southjerseysound7340 Dude its technicolor from the 30's just like Looney Tunes was color from the 30's.
A beautiful 1938 Technicolor film. WOW! Made by Roland Reed who also produced My Little Margie!
Not 1938. Look at the '50s cars at the end.
@@ArmpitStudios a mystery! Technicolor did exist before the war. Could the film have been started before the war and finished afterward?
@@archstanton_live No.
He just grinned and shook my hand and "No" was all he said.
I Miss this North America.
05:58 Working in a furnace, and smoking a pipe, as if the fumes weren't enough for this tough bloke.
The steel got cancer just from being in the presence of these tuff guys.
the workers filterd out all the steel fumes through their cigarettes ;)
A manly man
@@BrandonHall916 no hard hats no safety no nothing
Fascinating film. It looks like 1951-52 judging by the cars.
I think I see a 5 window chevy p/u 1947 up it would have to be, most others look 30's though...
Marvelous... Splendid. I love these long gone era and periscope for giving us a chance to see it again. Commentary is superb. 👌👍👍
We gave away the world's largest manufacturing base to China and the middle class was annihilated.
Incredible display of workmanship.
Very nice production. Color really brings life to these old films.
I love how casual these guys in the furnace areas are, just smoking a pipe like they're Sherlock Holmes. The modern Chinese versions all look stressed out. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.
Rip Joseph Froehlich and the rest of family that helped run the Mighty Pittsburgh Steel Mills!
The chemistry is fascinating. and to think of the oxidizing process? Oh my god.
g\Give me more like this. I am seriously enchanted by the process. Uuuuughhnn.
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Am reading Magnetic Mountain - Stalinism as a Civilization by historian Stephen Kotkin about the Soviet Union’s almost comically audacious effort to construct the Magnitogorsk steel plant “from scratch” in the southern Urals near an enormous source of iron ore. I realized I really didn’t know how steel was made in the 1930s and this film is excellent.
Designed by the same USA engineers and
metallurgists Arthur McKee & Company that building most of USA’s state-of-the-art plants, Magnitogorsk had to be built and run by an almost illiterate and constantly changing army of peasants on an absurdly unrealistic 24 month schedule. “Steel” represented “modernization” and industrial independence.
Interestingly, the super-hyped significance of having an independent high performance “steel industry” in one’s country carried a huge amount of political importance. It still does today.
Ive hauled it for the country to use
God Bless The Truckers
We used to do this in America.
Behold the might of the nation we once were. Though this was hard work, it was honest work, which had a benefit to society.
From 1976 to 2017 worked at Inland Steel co. to Ispat Inland to Arcelor Mittal, what a hell of a experience. From 35,000 employees to maybe less than 5,000. Guess who help destroy it? Wilbur Ross!
Wow that’s incredible History USA 🇺🇸
This 1938 film contained a scene with automobiles that were built in the early 1950s. I suspect this film was made in the early 1950s.
Really cool “Hardhats” and “Safety glasses” lol
Some of the toughest men ever
And three years later, many of them were tasked with saving the world. I'm sure they said, "OK. Hold my coffee."
We need an America like this again. Men and women working for prosperity and providing for their families. Able to be proud of themselves and our country. No LGBTQ+ NO DEI No Liberal BS like we have today. Just proud to be an American 🇺🇸
Men who are forever out of work, and land forever destroyed for their children. The beauty of steel.
Impressive old footage. I wish the film ID and time code was way smaller though...
Makes me wish I had worked in a steel plant, at l;east for a year or two. Amazing if you can do this job for 30+ years, and still have your health.
also, how did they make the machines that do all the processing and shaping? the supports and foundations must be beyond massive, and the moving parts are either easy to replace or last a life time.
I worked in the stool foundry and slab mill.....braddock pittsburgh pa.
I'm going to assume you meant to say "steel foundry". Houses usually come with at least 2 "stool foundries".
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awesme vid man*
Back when men and women knew what life was about and who they were.
Right before WW2
Why do I see several 1950 and 1951 automobiles in a 1938 documentary?
We had to import folks from other states and country to work in our mills. I work in Cleveland mill and love it.
I love these sounds
Smoking on the job Lord how times have changed.
This narrator could make miniature golf played by a bunch of 5 year olds interesting.
I miss big steel and big coke that made it possible. Breathing in coke sulfur fumes one of my favorite memories the first time I went to hell.
big coke
@@knockhello2604 sounds bad...
Coke. Its the ingredient in the process.
If you thought it was hot in a smelting plant, just wait until you go to real hell.
There are no shifts in hell.
Only eternity.
Choose your faith wisely.
its amazing to think we drive around in cars made from molten rocks.
Props to the gent at 5:55 taking samples with a pipe in his mouth.....👍
Almost makes me want to be an American.
At 17:30 ,I can't stop seeing nubs,,nubs on those ingnots just like the nubs we see on all megalithic constructions ,that came from an advanced society that proceeds our own.
fantastic
Minnesota, with its 6 billion tons of iron in the ground, has 75 years of iron, based on the current production of 80 million tons of steel a year.
Worked at Chaparral steel in Midlothian TX. Continuous castors in the 90s
What control the power of these mechanical machines? Was this before hydraulics?
1938 film but updated. 1950's era cars near the end.
35:44 green p/u looks like 5 window Chevy?? 1947 and up...
Yea, that's the thing, and the kind nudge to Periscope would be, "gee, maybe this was a recut from '48." It's possible this was the one place they needed an edit to bring it up to date. Notice there was none of the self congratulation for winning the war so common until about 1960.
The metal that gave its name to the greatest football team around...or vice versa.
The metal named for the greatest football team ever!
High-carbon Cowboy?
Steelers Pittsburgh
Secondary Steel making was not developed at that time. So it is such magical. Now we have well defined processes and accurate gauges the magic is lost. Still the drama of the drama is more than the manicured movie of today.
amazing how technology advanced in the 20th century. do we have anything that compares for the last 22 years?
"Today, on 'How It's Made'"
The freighter at 2:12 is the SS James A Farrell
27:45 GOOD GUY MIKE WITH THE COFFEE!
It's interesting seeing the dynamic of what got the american family by back in the day. Jobs deemed so painfully laborsome most would refuse to do yet the system would always need steel and would never stop till they we're shut down for labor export to other countries.
In this work if you're not smoking... you're fired!!! 😂❤
Thank you for smoking!
Americans used to take pride in their WORK. We made the best of almost everything, and took the time to make quality products. We could reform our government, and rebuild our manufacturing sector. We can Make America Great Again.
It is really stupid how You Tube and 🍎 make it so hard to type in the phrase of words symbolized by MAGA… and other words and phrases.
I think this is more like 1950? Look at cars in last few minites.
Im a hugh school dropout and make over 100k a year as a pipe fitter in montana. There are still jobs you can support entire families on
My great great grandpa was a crane man in 1950
That guy who has chaw and a pipe going at the same time.
Dumb question here I'm sure but when they throw in the separate ingredients They don't have to turn or stir it like you do at home when cooking ?
High temperature itself does the steering, I think. The more temperature the more drifting there is in the hot liquid. Try dissolving salt in cold water without stirring, and try the same with hot or boiling water, I think it's an effect in that sense. I know that in secondary refinement the mixing happens just by heating and keeping the ladle warm
It's not 1938, more like 1948.
Yes, some of those cars in the last frames are late '40's and maybe early '50's. I think I saw a few from 1953.
no talk of war
@@shopshop144 States was not involved till 1942, so that's why no talk.
@@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 The US wasn't fighting the war, but they were making some preparations for what they expected. Plus we were helping Canada and the UK. The lend/lease program was signed in early 41, and had been functioning for a year before that. So, steel production wasn't just a casual concern.
Was this film colorized? I didn't know they had color and sound films in the 1930s.
This was made using the Technicolor process -- and yes color films have been around for 100 years.
Zinc! Come back, zinc!
Those guys used to have to work a 24hr swing-shift every other Sunday when the shifts changed. I grew up outside Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point and I remember how we had to be especially quiet if someone's Dad was trying to get some sleep before going on night shift. Yes, it's a dirty, dangerous industry but it's not wise to depend on outside/offshore suppliers for steel, not wise at all.
6:00: Smoking a pipe right next to a blast furnace and all of the fumes. That's some real man shit right there.
I believe this film was made in the early 50's, judging by the cars toward the end?
Jesus...these guys didn't even have heat resistant suits on!
Never use the Lords name in vain.
You don't know what that means now.
But you absolutely will on the very last day which is coming faster than the 5 months which passed since you left that comment