Steel Making 1937

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Steel making.

Letchworth, near London.

L/S of steel scrap, M/S of man cutting wheel with red hot flame. M/S of a huge pot of molten metal, it is poured in a convertor and lumps of ferro-silicon are thrown in to raise temperature. Various shots of the conversion process, flame dies...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
41939
Sort Number:
NSP 057
Time in/Out:
01:47:24:00 / 01:49:34:00
Canister:
NSP 57
Film ID:
1236.30
Issue Date:
29/04/1937

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