Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley).
Credit: Library of Congress.
HDR photographs of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
DOCUMENTARY. The production of high-grade steel in Britain; the mining of iron ore, processing in a blast furnace; the conversion to steel by the Bessemer process; electric arc furnace and open heart furnace; casting of liquid steel into ingot moulds; rolling and forging of ingots into semi-finished products. Note: Filmed at the English Steel Corporation, Sheffield (featuring forge-master H.H. Renshaw); Firth Brown’s and Arthur Balfour & Son of Sheffield; Colvilles Ltd of Motherwell; Rolls Royce at Hillingdon, Glasgow; Dorman Long’s Works at Middlesborough; Guest, Keen and Baldwins at Cardiff; and Richard Thomas Ltd at Ebbw Vale. (NFA Catalogue) Shows in the blast furnaces, forges, rolling mills and machine shops work numbers of highly skilled craftsmen who for generations have devoted their lives to serve the tradition of British Steel. (Synopsis)
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Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on p. 76. View Quote
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Steel (GB 1945, Ronald H. Riley). Credit: Library of Congress. HDR photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.