STEEL: THE METAL GIANT 1981 INLAND STEEL CO. STEEL MILL EDUCATIONAL FILM 96264
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This film was produced by Centron Films for Inland Steel in 1981. It is an educational film showing the entire process of the production of steel, from the mining of taconite, through the various stages inside the steel mill to the final product of pure steel. The film specifically focuses on the production of a steel coil.
Centron Films logo shown (0:12-0:20). Brief and eclectic range of shots; of the Chicago skyling / cityscape, farming equipment, a film projector, and two silhouetted people on bicycles (0:21-0:31). We see interior of a steel mill. Title card overlaid (0:32-0:40). More eclectic shots; we see the bow of a cargo ship at sea, a beam being lifted in a construction site, a range of steel bars in storage. Next two men seen in a kitchen appliance showroom and a busy highway (0:41-1:07). Interior of steel mill shown, then very brief range of shots of elements of the interior (1:08-1:19). We see a close up on a range of workers in action (1:20-01:30). A mechanical arm maneuvers a coil of sheet steel into place over a storeyard of coils (1:42-2:00). A range of shots of machines at work in a taconite quarry in the Iron Ranges (2:05-2:24). We see process of crushing of the rocks, extraction of iron ore and formation of pellets (2:25-2:33). Next we see extreme long shots of limestone quarrying in an area nearby. Camera pans over to a cargo ship being loaded with limestone (2:34-2:47). Shot of cargo ship carrying this freight through the great lakes (2:50-2:55). Aerial shot of steel mill on shore of one of the great lakes. Coal seen running on a conveyer belt, and being brought in by train. Aerial shot of mill continues (2:56-3:24). Stylised split screen shot showing different stages of the steel making process (3:25-3:34). Exterior shots of a coke battery. We see extraction of unwanted elements from the red hot coal, then of steaming cooled coke, recently quenched with water (3:35-4:05). Range of brief, eclectic shots around the steel mill; scoops mechanically taken from a stockpile of iron ore, an operator supervising the work from an office, coke running down a conveyer belt (4:06-4:24). Range of long shots of a blast furnace which dominates the factory (4:25-4:49). Cross-sectional animated sequence displays smelting process occurring inside the blast furnace (4:50-5:26). Footage of workers in the cast house of furnace. A tap hole opened and molten iron runs along a trough into a railway car. Brief shot of railway cars leaving the furnace (5:26-6:01). Footage of molten iron being emptied out of a vessel, and of a crane magnet picking up scrap metal (6:02-6:19). Extreme long shot of molten iron being poured into oxygen furnace (6:20-6:42). Cross-sectional animated demonstration of interior of oxygen furnace (6:43-6:55). Workers remove a sample and run a test (6:56-7:13). We then see the furnace being tapped, and ladle of molten steel removed (7:14-7:37). The continuous casting process. Molten steel is released from the base of the ladle (7:40-7:59). Animated display of continuous casting process; the steel pouring into a mould and becoming solid (8:00-8:17). Long shot of billets emerging from the casters (8:18-8:26). Wide slab of solid steel emerges from another, and is seen being cut and lifted to the next stage of process (8:27-8:45). Red-hot slab seen, having been reheated, being rolled into the strip mill, then being cooled by water in between each roller. Final very thin sheet is seen. It is seen being coiled on a roller (8:46-9:34). We see reheated steel is seen emerging into different structural shapes (9:35-9:55). Steel coil is seen being cold rolled. Annealing chamber is placed over the coil, then is seen being fed through a bath of molten zinc, showing the hot-dip galvanising process (9:56-10:43). A coil of steel lifted over a storeyard of coils (10:44-10:55). Long shots of a major city street, then of a skycraper. Very brief credits overlaid (10:56-11:11).
The Inland Steel Company was a U.S. steel company active in 1893-1998. Its history as an independent firm thus spanned much of the 20th century. It was headquartered in Chicago at the landmark Inland Steel Building. Inland Steel was integrated and reduced iron ore to steel. Its sole mill was located in East Chicago, Indiana. The steel mill's shoreline location enabled it to take in steelmaking commodities, such as iron ore, coal, and limestone, by lake freighter. It was founded by Jewish owners and provided employment to other Jewish workers.
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Sitting in my billet crane watching these videos killing the boredom.
Thank you
This came out the year I was born. You can see the differences between things like this from the 50's and 60's, and then the 70's and 80s. So much more informative. Many documentaries now suck....lol.
The narrator sounds like Johnny Carson, great video!
Fantastic, thank you.
Awesome video! I think I have been to that steel plant, though it's amazingly dirty from roads layered with slag (that's where they toss it) and that on all of the buildings (and in them) for decades.
That's not where the slag goes. It gets granulated and/or crushed and used in several applications.
For many decades that slag was dumped into Lake Michigan forming more real estate forming Plants #2, #3 and Plant 4. If you look on a map you can easily see where this new property changed the Lake Michigan shoreline at East Chicago Indiana.
Way wrong my dude, they used the slag to build the peninsula inland steel was on.
Say what you will, the slag was "paving" the dirt roads inside of several steel plants I visited. They did measure samples of it to get the condition of the kilns, and it may have been used many places. They create a LOT of it!
8:35
The company I work for does work for Inland Steel along with many other steel companies. One of the main purposes of the shop I work in is the refurbishment of variable width continuous slab casters. We have work in our shop right now from Inland.
Inland steel is still around? I know it got bought up by another company, but does it still operate as a subsidiary?
I work for Inland which isnt inland. Its Arcelormittal
@@godking7567 At least the mill still operates in the US.
@@godking7567 Yes it now Arcelor Mittal. But we still refer to it as Inland internally since we do work for several of the Arcelor Mittal shops.
@@capriracer351 no doubt. Where u do your work
In the late '70s, Inland Steel "gentrified" the Cairo in DC, where my brother owns a condo. By law, it is the tallest residential building in the city. Ironically, the 1894 building relies on a hybrid masonry- steel support structure.
Fun factoid... way long ago before there was free oxygen in the air, iron was dissolved in the ocean. When oxygen started appearing, the iron combined with it and precipitated into rust particles which fell to the ocean bottom.
With a few zillion years and continental drifting and land upthrust and whatnot, those iron rust beds would get mined when the ocean bottom was now dry land.
Before the iron precipitated, the ocean was green rather than the now blue.
Iron... star stuff.
Created in supernovas and neutron star collisions.
Another fun factoid... the gold contacts in your computer which you're using to view this video were likely created when two neutron stars whacked into each other lonnnnnng ago.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN
Ha Ha Ha Your math is off by Zillions of years my friend!!
Worked the 10 " mill 1981
This Is INDUSTRY.
There's an irony to iron because iron is ironic.
Bad puns are fun.
Excellent use alliteration
So cold rolled steel is hardened?
It is hardened by the cold-rolling process, yes.
Why do I get the feeling a Terminator or two is running around in there?
I work there. No terminator but we do have Sloth from the Goonies
It's too bad that, just a few years later, many companies decided to obtain steel from overseas and people lost their jobs here at home.
Yes at Inland Steel there were around 25,000 employees when that film was made, but only 10 years later we were down to about 7,000 employees. Japan was kicking our butt starting around 1981,
True, but East Chicago works east and west side are still in operation today. Many mills across the US can't say the same.
These guys definitely have 99 smithing
Fellow RuneScape homie, I worked at this mill.
1984
Yeah steel back then got a zinc coating to prevent corrosion!