WPA story: Operations at the Homestead Steel Works in Homestead, PA
Typed card describing clip / Pan of smokestacks of the steel works at the Monongahela River / CU a long row of tall stacks with a cone-roofed cylindrical building / VS workers under a roof of scaffolding with large rectangular slabs of metal being transported by an industrial electric magnet to a stack / Inside the foundry, a glowing white slab is pulled from a furnace and is moved to a set of rollers / CU metal being transferred / welder cutting straight through the metal and white metal drips down the side / CU a fire seen through a circular door; a man holds and fills bags from a chute / A large flattened sheet of glowing metal rolls forward then back under sprays of water / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
1833221781
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
01 March, 1936
Upload date:
Licence type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:04:19
Location:
Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005808_01_02
- 1930-1939,
- Accuracy,
- Adult,
- Archival,
- Bag,
- Below,
- Black And White,
- Block Shape,
- Business Finance and Industry,
- Circle,
- Construction Industry,
- Conveyor Belt,
- Cylinder,
- Day,
- Deflated,
- Door,
- Economy,
- Electricity,
- Filling,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Finance and Economy,
- Fire - Natural Phenomenon,
- Flat - Physical Description,
- Foundry,
- Furnace,
- Glowing,
- Great Depression,
- HD Format,
- Heat - Temperature,
- Industry,
- Liquid,
- Magnet,
- Manufacturing,
- Manufacturing Occupation,
- Men,
- Metal,
- Metal Industry,
- Molten,
- New Deal,
- Newsreel,
- Pennsylvania,
- Pulling,
- Raw Footage,
- Real Time - Footage,
- Rectangle,
- River,
- River Monongahela,
- Rooftop,
- Scaffolding,
- Sheet Metal,
- Side View,
- Smoke Stack,
- Spray,
- Spraying,
- Stack,
- Steel,
- Steel Mill,
- Talking,
- Tall - High,
- Typing,
- USA,
- Video with Sound,
- Water,
- Welder,