STEEL: MAN'S SERVANT 1938 UNITED STATES STEEL DOCUMENTARY MD74702

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    Produced in 1938 by United States Steel, "Steel: Man's Servant" presents a lavish Technicolor look at the steel industry prior to WWII. Narrated by Edwin Hill and directed by Roland Reed, with amusical score by Robert Armbruster, the 37-minute film typically accompanied a dramatic feature film in release. The film presents mining activities on the Mesabi Range, with an Oliver Iron Mining Co. steam shovel ripping iron ore from the ground at the film's start. The film goes on to show the path of iron ore to Duluth's docks and steel plant before most of it arrived in the mills and manufacturing facilities of the eastern United States. The movie contains rare color images of pre-WWII American including open pit and underground mines, steel mills, blast furnaces, Great Lakes ore carriers, steam locomotives, steel bridges, skyscrapers, highways, ships, oil derricks, stainless steel pots and pans, and more.
    The United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. The company was the world's 15th largest steel producer in 2014. It was renamed USX Corporation in 1986 and back to United States Steel Corporation in 2001 when the shareholders of USX spun off the oil & gas business of Marathon Oil and the steel business of U. S. Steel to shareholders. In 2001 it was still the largest domestically owned integrated steel producer in the United States, although it produced only slightly more steel than it did in 1902, after significant downsizing in the 1980s.

    J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel in 1901 (incorporated on February 25) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company[8][9] for $492 million ($13.95 billion today). At one time, U.S. Steel was the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world. It was capitalized at $1.4 billion ($39.69 billion today), making it the world's first billion-dollar corporation. The company headquarters was established in 1901 in the Empire Building, purchased from the estate of Orlando B. Potter for $5 million.[11] In 1907 it bought its largest competitor, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, which was headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. This led to Tennessee Coal's being replaced in the Dow Jones Industrial Average by the General Electric Company. The federal government attempted to use federal antitrust laws to break up U.S. Steel in 1911, but that effort ultimately failed. In its first full year of operation, U.S. Steel made 67 percent of all the steel produced in the United States. One hundred years later, its shipments accounted for only about 8 percent of domestic consumption.
    The Corporation, as it was known on Wall Street, always distinguished itself to investors by virtue of its size, rather than for its efficiency or creativeness during its heyday. In 1901, it controlled two-thirds of steel production. Because of heavy debts taken on at the company's formation - Carnegie insisted on being paid in gold bonds for his stake - and fears of antitrust litigation, U.S. Steel moved cautiously. Competitors often innovated faster, especially Bethlehem Steel, run by U.S. Steel's former first president, Charles M. Schwab. U.S. Steel's share of the expanding market slipped to 50 percent by 1911.
    U.S. Steel ranked 16th among United States corporations in the value of World War II production contracts. Production peaked at more than 35 million tons in 1953. Its employment was greatest in 1943 when it had more than 340,000 employees; by 2000, however, it employed 52,500 people.
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  • @adamivester9876
    @adamivester9876 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks!

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      @PeriscopeFilm  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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  • @bengrant750
    @bengrant750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Blows my mind that once upon a time in this country you could support a whole family with a job like these men worked!

    • @Marc757
      @Marc757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Still can.

    • @Marc757
      @Marc757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Yuck Foutube what?

    • @calsavestheworld
      @calsavestheworld 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And easily buy a house and two automobiles.

    • @kidnamedfinger8676
      @kidnamedfinger8676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@calsavestheworld Two cars? The average family didn't start having two cars until the 1980's

    • @nickmaas4467
      @nickmaas4467 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is actually a really good paying job still, ha

  • @DavidHerscher
    @DavidHerscher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    This narrator is KILLING IT. "by their watches and their blue tint glasses shall you know them". Legend.

    • @manp1039
      @manp1039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i think they are blue light filter glasses. but i could be wrong.

    • @woodworkerroyer8497
      @woodworkerroyer8497 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes!
      I wish narrators today had the excitement and passion this one does. He LIKES his job, and it shows.

    • @seanriopel3132
      @seanriopel3132 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Almost. He said. "Shall *_YE_* know them"

    • @GangusBong1
      @GangusBong1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      RISING BEFORE YOU LIKE A HARVEST MOON

    • @theaffliction21
      @theaffliction21 ปีที่แล้ว

      Edwin c Hill

  • @PM17E5
    @PM17E5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    They sure don't make documentary films like they used to any more. The way they talk and the beautiful music is so nostalgic.

  • @garytompkins9781
    @garytompkins9781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    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.

    • @AlbertLebel
      @AlbertLebel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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..

    • @kevinwheatcroft
      @kevinwheatcroft 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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

    • @lukestrawwalker
      @lukestrawwalker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@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 :)

    • @charlesneilio7861
      @charlesneilio7861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @evanlevitan2406
      @evanlevitan2406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@charlesneilio7861 that whole area became so poor after Bethlehem Steel shut down there

  • @johns3106
    @johns3106 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There is something incredibly romantic about these tough, dirty, noisy, dangerous jobs!

    • @TheWizardGamez
      @TheWizardGamez หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @charleshall6357
      @charleshall6357 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yah it's called death by cancer not only lying for the workers but those living near it

  • @daves7525
    @daves7525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    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...

    • @matthewh117
      @matthewh117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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
      @jessebaca2750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What state was this in?

    • @matthewh117
      @matthewh117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jessebaca2750 Historic Homestead Pa.

    • @jessebaca2750
      @jessebaca2750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@matthewh117 A lost trade these Men played a significant role in history

    • @matthewh117
      @matthewh117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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

  • @user-jc1qt3wl8q
    @user-jc1qt3wl8q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    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.

  • @garytompkins9781
    @garytompkins9781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    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.

    • @operatorjeffdeathstar7759
      @operatorjeffdeathstar7759 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Confirm the year if you can...LOL

    • @ObservationofLimits
      @ObservationofLimits ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @johnquest3102
    @johnquest3102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    LOVE that big gritty industrial stuff - the good old days.

    • @cpcattin
      @cpcattin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’ve met my wife ?

    • @ObservationofLimits
      @ObservationofLimits ปีที่แล้ว

      The old school power hammers at foundries are one of my favorites.

  • @abevigoda3149
    @abevigoda3149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    What impressed me the most was to learn that in 1938 there were people driving a 1952 Studebaker and 1952 Roadmaster @35:18

    • @TheGor54
      @TheGor54 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the highway system a couple minutes later..

    • @BrassLock
      @BrassLock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣 🐵🐵🐵

    • @hobbitdude1330
      @hobbitdude1330 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marty where we're going, we won't need steel!

    • @johncarlisle6865
      @johncarlisle6865 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's only 7.38 PM, what's the problem?😊

  • @donaldparlettjr3295
    @donaldparlettjr3295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As a pilot I use to fly over Sparrows Point just outside Baltimore at night. It was incredible when they were pouring.

  • @K-Effect
    @K-Effect 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

  • @kingofaesthetics9407
    @kingofaesthetics9407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love the enthusiasm and passion of the narrator.

    • @randywl8925
      @randywl8925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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 😁

  • @joelgenung2571
    @joelgenung2571 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @rob28803
    @rob28803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    05:58 Working in a furnace, and smoking a pipe, as if the fumes weren't enough for this tough bloke.

    • @clutch5sp989
      @clutch5sp989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The steel got cancer just from being in the presence of these tuff guys.

    • @Nords555
      @Nords555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      the workers filterd out all the steel fumes through their cigarettes ;)

    • @BrandonHall916
      @BrandonHall916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A manly man

    • @goober208
      @goober208 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BrandonHall916 no hard hats no safety no nothing

  • @ronnievance6835
    @ronnievance6835 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The 57 studebaker had a 289 cubic inch engine , my neighbor had one when I was a kid.

  • @robertreynolds1044
    @robertreynolds1044 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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.

  • @random-protogen
    @random-protogen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    absolutely beautiful film

  • @anthonyv8329
    @anthonyv8329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wow! They really took the making of this film to the goal line.

  • @NortheastAndRetired
    @NortheastAndRetired 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

    • @alexm566
      @alexm566 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      mind sharing some of the stories please?

    • @jeramiebradford1
      @jeramiebradford1 ปีที่แล้ว

      He might have been in this film, as it was made in the 1950s.

  • @austro3852
    @austro3852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I Miss this North America.

  • @paul-andrelarose3389
    @paul-andrelarose3389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    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.

    • @0MoTheG
      @0MoTheG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Unless you are British you are wrong. Most industrialized nations still produce specialty steel.
      Only the common types are exclusively sourced from China.

    • @663rainmaker
      @663rainmaker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @madisonbrown8851
      @madisonbrown8851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You can thank the previous generation for that.

    • @essentia2705
      @essentia2705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

    • @seanbell4203
      @seanbell4203 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A great deal of steel is still manufactured in the developed world.

  • @joshuafroughton4171
    @joshuafroughton4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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

    • @cheponis
      @cheponis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you understand the narrator is a propagandist for the Capitalists? Listen closely to what he says.

    • @joshuafroughton4171
      @joshuafroughton4171 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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.

    • @booklover6753
      @booklover6753 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @EddieVBlueIsland
    @EddieVBlueIsland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It's diffferent now days but the guts, sparks and grit is still there.
    Through these portals walked the greatest steel workers...

    • @clutch5sp989
      @clutch5sp989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Now supposed men all have that dooshy anteefa beard look about em.

  • @peterhamlinhamlin8908
    @peterhamlinhamlin8908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I worked in the stool foundry and slab mill.....braddock pittsburgh pa.

    • @johnpooky84
      @johnpooky84 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm going to assume you meant to say "steel foundry". Houses usually come with at least 2 "stool foundries".

  • @blankchck
    @blankchck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We used to do this in America.

  • @allandavis8201
    @allandavis8201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @robertcupp5528
      @robertcupp5528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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...

    • @edwardtatum9930
      @edwardtatum9930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hell if you did not have cut off limbs or missing parts you were not in the club.

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right before WW2, didn't have time to worry about that nonsense when nazi Germany and tojo Japan going all out for world domination!

  • @shawng7902
    @shawng7902 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @caminemos1245
    @caminemos1245 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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...

  • @robsiddall9731
    @robsiddall9731 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely brilliant thanks for posting
    VALUABLE INFORMATION
    It's like watching pioneers

  • @mitchdakelman4470
    @mitchdakelman4470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A beautiful 1938 Technicolor film. WOW! Made by Roland Reed who also produced My Little Margie!

    • @ArmpitStudios
      @ArmpitStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not 1938. Look at the '50s cars at the end.

    • @archstanton_live
      @archstanton_live 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ArmpitStudios a mystery! Technicolor did exist before the war. Could the film have been started before the war and finished afterward?

    • @ArmpitStudios
      @ArmpitStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@archstanton_live No.

    • @archstanton_live
      @archstanton_live 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He just grinned and shook my hand and "No" was all he said.

  • @dziban303
    @dziban303 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This film is amazing

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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"}.

    • @CuriousEarthMan
      @CuriousEarthMan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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!

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're welcome! Reed continued to produce industrial and public relation films through the mid-1960's.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @christophergordon6593
    @christophergordon6593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fascinating film. It looks like 1951-52 judging by the cars.

    • @operatorjeffdeathstar7759
      @operatorjeffdeathstar7759 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think I see a 5 window chevy p/u 1947 up it would have to be, most others look 30's though...

  • @WAL_DC-6B
    @WAL_DC-6B 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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.

    • @southjerseysound7340
      @southjerseysound7340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @ArmpitStudios
      @ArmpitStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@southjerseysound7340 They also didn't have '50s cars in the '30s, as seen around 35:15.

    • @jankrusat2150
      @jankrusat2150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @ArmpitStudios
      @ArmpitStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

    • @operatorjeffdeathstar7759
      @operatorjeffdeathstar7759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@southjerseysound7340 Dude its technicolor from the 30's just like Looney Tunes was color from the 30's.

  • @boris2342
    @boris2342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Some of the toughest men ever

    • @TheDing1701
      @TheDing1701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And three years later, many of them were tasked with saving the world. I'm sure they said, "OK. Hold my coffee."

  • @edwardtatum9930
    @edwardtatum9930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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!

    • @663rainmaker
      @663rainmaker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow that’s incredible History USA 🇺🇸

  • @888ssss
    @888ssss ปีที่แล้ว +1

    its amazing to think we drive around in cars made from molten rocks.

  • @ChadtheHammer
    @ChadtheHammer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This narrator could make miniature golf played by a bunch of 5 year olds interesting.

  • @tiamatxvxianash9202
    @tiamatxvxianash9202 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredible display of workmanship.

  • @OPGamer-wp1si
    @OPGamer-wp1si หลายเดือนก่อน

    Marvelous... Splendid. I love these long gone era and periscope for giving us a chance to see it again. Commentary is superb. 👌👍👍

  • @supermanmax3478
    @supermanmax3478 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rip Joseph Froehlich and the rest of family that helped run the Mighty Pittsburgh Steel Mills!

  • @trafalgar22a8
    @trafalgar22a8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Congratulations for a superb production. From Australia

  • @_xntrk
    @_xntrk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The chemistry is fascinating. and to think of the oxidizing process? Oh my god.

  • @neilpuckett359
    @neilpuckett359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We gave away the world's largest manufacturing base to China and the middle class was annihilated.

  • @TrapperAaron
    @TrapperAaron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Men who are forever out of work, and land forever destroyed for their children. The beauty of steel.

  • @_xntrk
    @_xntrk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    g\Give me more like this. I am seriously enchanted by the process. Uuuuughhnn.

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Subscribe to Periscope, an endless variety of any manufacturing possible, excellent historical documentaries.

  • @davidfoulk3078
    @davidfoulk3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Really cool “Hardhats” and “Safety glasses” lol

  • @optimusprimum
    @optimusprimum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love these sounds

  • @mackchannel6348
    @mackchannel6348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Behold the might of the nation we once were. Though this was hard work, it was honest work, which had a benefit to society.

  • @bekahdennis4455
    @bekahdennis4455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Back when men and women knew what life was about and who they were.

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right before WW2

  • @CJinsoo
    @CJinsoo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thanks!

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you so much -- for helping us preserve these films. Thanks for being a subscriber. Get the inside scoop on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm
      Become a channel member th-cam.com/video/ODBW3pVahUE/w-d-xo.html

  • @jeramiebradford1
    @jeramiebradford1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @scratchdog2216
    @scratchdog2216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very nice production. Color really brings life to these old films.

  • @nixxonnor
    @nixxonnor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Impressive old footage. I wish the film ID and time code was way smaller though...

  • @gonebamboo4116
    @gonebamboo4116 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I miss America

  • @ffsForgerFortySeven.9154
    @ffsForgerFortySeven.9154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    fantastic

  • @ylee5923
    @ylee5923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Props to the gent at 5:55 taking samples with a pipe in his mouth.....👍

  • @manitoba-op4jx
    @manitoba-op4jx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i want to go back in time and give the crew that filmed this 4k cameras and equipment...

    • @johnpooky84
      @johnpooky84 ปีที่แล้ว

      The only downside I can see to that is that people will think the video was fake, or a reenactment, then, due to the 4k quality.

  • @josephhuether1184
    @josephhuether1184 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @josephastier7421
    @josephastier7421 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WWII broke out when we were at the top of our game.

  • @thomascruff786
    @thomascruff786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Smoking on the job Lord how times have changed.

  • @dant.3505
    @dant.3505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Worked at Chaparral steel in Midlothian TX. Continuous castors in the 90s

  • @raylamp4505
    @raylamp4505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We had to import folks from other states and country to work in our mills. I work in Cleveland mill and love it.

  • @phuturephunk
    @phuturephunk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    27:45 GOOD GUY MIKE WITH THE COFFEE!

  • @operatorjeffdeathstar7759
    @operatorjeffdeathstar7759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    35:44 green p/u looks like 5 window Chevy?? 1947 and up...

    • @markdraper3469
      @markdraper3469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @alicebonnet4607
    @alicebonnet4607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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.

    • @knockhello2604
      @knockhello2604 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      big coke

    • @asafgl4281
      @asafgl4281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@knockhello2604 sounds bad...

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @gufbrindleback
    @gufbrindleback 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That guy who has chaw and a pipe going at the same time.

  • @michaelanderson-tl2xh
    @michaelanderson-tl2xh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    awesme vid man*

  • @stephenkessel1990
    @stephenkessel1990 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ive hauled it for the country to use
    God Bless The Truckers

  • @marshja56
    @marshja56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The metal named for the greatest football team ever!

  • @frenchcreekvalley
    @frenchcreekvalley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why do I see several 1950 and 1951 automobiles in a 1938 documentary?

  • @schmidt60410
    @schmidt60410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1938 film but updated. 1950's era cars near the end.

  • @Road38910
    @Road38910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Almost makes me want to be an American.

  • @daviddavenport1485
    @daviddavenport1485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The metal that gave its name to the greatest football team around...or vice versa.

  • @anncodec
    @anncodec ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @sashadala346
    @sashadala346 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @antpoo
    @antpoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What control the power of these mechanical machines? Was this before hydraulics?

  • @somjeetbasumallik3481
    @somjeetbasumallik3481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @johnpooky84
    @johnpooky84 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Today, on 'How It's Made'"

  • @neilpuckett359
    @neilpuckett359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    In just a few years we've gone from an exploding middle class to an imploding middle class.

    • @dougmapper3306
      @dougmapper3306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Danger Bear Minimum wage in 1950 was $0.75/hr. Inflation-adjusted, that's $8.14/hr today. It's actually about the same, but back then "scraping by" didn't include a daily morning frappuccino and a $1000 iphone. It wasn't until the 1940s that unemployment or employer-sponsored health insurance were even a thing. We have it comparatively good.

    • @brosefmcman8264
      @brosefmcman8264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Obama 🤮

    • @Sennmut
      @Sennmut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The blessings of socilaism.

    • @lukestrawwalker
      @lukestrawwalker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dougmapper3306 True... and a house was about $10,000-15,000 new and a new car about $1,500-2,000, unless you really wanted something fancy which was more. Or you could buy a new pickup back then even cheaper for basic transportation. Back then the major purchases were new appliances which would last for years, even decades... refrigerators replacing iceboxes, new stoves, later on adding electric dishwashers and later still microwave ovens, but the main thing people were quick to buy in the 50's was a TV set... and back then they WERE pretty darn expensive when you adjust for inflation. Heck the first VCR I ever bought, a Sears toploader VHS which was a year-end closeout, I paid about $350 for back in about 1985... they'd been out for awhile but our family couldn't afford the $700-1,000 price tag for them when they first came out. Back in 84-85 that was REAL MONEY-- you could buy a decent used car for that! It basically took my entire income off the farm that year as a 15 year old kid to pay for that VCR! It was much the same with TV's in the 50's. Grandpa bought the first TV in our rural area back in the early 50's, and the neighbors would come over to watch TV quite a bit because so few people had them back then, particularly in farm/rural areas. I don't know what he paid for it (I'm sure it was several hundred dollars, which would buy you a good solid used car back then!) and it had about a 7 inch screen on it or so LOL:) Heck my parents and siblings came over to Grandma's house (I lived with her after my Grandpa died since I ran the farms for her) to watch tapes they rented on MY VCR and would be up to all hours of the night, just bugged us to death. They FINALLY sprang to buy their own VCR the next summer...
      Back in the 50's there just wasn't that much stuff to buy, and what you DID buy was usually EXTREMELY good quality and durable compared to the "throw-away junk" we get today. Just different times. Heck I still use some farm equipment built back in the 50's, for stuff that really doesn't change much like plows, most of the stuff built back then is WAY superior than stuff built years later... Later! OL J R :)

    • @firefox5926
      @firefox5926 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      also gone from strong unions to no unions and from having a ussr scaring the rich with the threat of revolution to...

  • @alexm566
    @alexm566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing how technology advanced in the 20th century. do we have anything that compares for the last 22 years?

  • @mikepoteet1443
    @mikepoteet1443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't you cram a few more commercials down our throats?

    • @pauleohl
      @pauleohl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Install Adblocker and the ads are gone.

  • @XEGMagic
    @XEGMagic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I work at Gary works pretty cool

  • @mantia39
    @mantia39 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jesus...these guys didn't even have heat resistant suits on!

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @connern5791
    @connern5791 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The freighter at 2:12 is the SS James A Farrell

  • @worldofmuu
    @worldofmuu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Zinc! Come back, zinc!

  • @foureyedchick
    @foureyedchick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was this film colorized? I didn't know they had color and sound films in the 1930s.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This was made using the Technicolor process -- and yes color films have been around for 100 years.

  • @clintonwurzbach5166
    @clintonwurzbach5166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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 ?

    • @FabricioRWitt
      @FabricioRWitt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @cursed1054
    @cursed1054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @asafgl4281
    @asafgl4281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder how. Those places look like this days...

    • @williambryant5946
      @williambryant5946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No not in the United States. It's all gone. That's what they look like in China because steel comes from there now along with everything else.

    • @immortanjoe9362
      @immortanjoe9362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@williambryant5946 US Steel, Arcelor Mittal, Nucor, and a bunch of other companies produce steel across the US. It's far from gone.

    • @williambryant5946
      @williambryant5946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@immortanjoe9362 Excuse me. 95% gone from what it was in this video.

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@immortanjoe9362 and Worthington Steel.

  • @jasonligo895
    @jasonligo895 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe this film was made in the early 50's, judging by the cars toward the end?

  • @scua2646
    @scua2646 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👌

  • @putteslaintxtbks5166
    @putteslaintxtbks5166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think this is more like 1950? Look at cars in last few minites.

  • @CBeard849
    @CBeard849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait......what?! I didn't see the Mill OSHA Guy anywhere in that film!!

    • @CBeard849
      @CBeard849 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This Periscope Film brought to you today....by RJ Reynolds Tobacco!!

  • @TrapperAaron
    @TrapperAaron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When lake traffic was icebound in winter. I miss those days, no worries though the US government assures us global warming isn't happening and is nothing to worry about.

  • @gilzor9376
    @gilzor9376 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam needs a 2-thumbs up . . . . . the ole Siskell and Ebert sign of quality (;

  • @techmarine83
    @techmarine83 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jesus Christ. This narrator must have used the "soup" and "serving it's master, man" line like six times each. We get it.