“ STEEL FOR THE NATION “ 1967 STELCO CANADIAN STEEL MANUFACTURING PROMO FILM XD14424

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color educational film is about the production of steel in Canada by Stelco. Copyright 1967. Stelco is a steel manufacturer based in Hamilton, Ontario. It was founded in 1910 from the amalgamation of several firms. Stelco existed for almost 100 years, until it filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and was bought by U.S. Steel. The Hamilton plant shown in the film has not produced steel since 2011, but its coke ovens and cold rolling finishing works remain in operation. The company also employs workers at facilities in Nanticoke and the Lake Erie Works. Opening: Men work in a steel mill (:08).Opening titles: Steel Company of Canada, Limited presents Steel for the Nation (:42). Aerial shot of a city in Canada; men work construction (1:03). Steel making in Hamilton, Ontario (1:34). Fire shoots off in many directions near the steel making mill (1:58). Porous fuel known as coke (2:11). Water produces a steam cloud above the mill (2:20). Coke on a conveyor belt (2:32). Hilton Works steel plant (2:47). A skip carries coke, limestone and iron ore to the top to place into a heating stove (3:01). Animation shows how the molten iron is made (3:13). Men work near the base of the furnace (3:42). Molten iron is made (4:24). A brickline thermos car carries the molten iron (4:33). Raw material is placed into a dump truck (5:02). Wabush, a small town in the western tip of Labrador, bordering Quebec in Canada is known for it’s ore operations (5:15). Map shows North America featuring Canada (5:33). Blasting for ore at the Scully Mine (5:50). Dump trucks take iron ore out of the mines (6:11). A train carries the ore down the tracks (6:28). On the north shore of the St. Lawrence River is Point Noire (6:55). Pellets of iron ore go up a conveyor belt (7:08). A barge on the river (7:16). Hamilton, Ontario mill (7:22). Molten iron in transit from the blast furnace (8:03). Where steel is made inside the mill (8:25). The furnace is loaded by charging (8:50). Steel making and cars in a junkyard (9:20). Molten iron in giant ladles moving down the line (9:50). Men confer as molten iron is made (10:06). Molten iron ore is made and supervised (10:29). A sample is gathered to be tested (10:57). An explosive charge of dynamite is set to go off (11:40). Flames in the steel mill (12:00). Down the line once more for molten iron in giant ladles (12:34). Pouring the steel into molds in the presence of an audience (13:06). Animation shows continuous casting of steel into molds; a new method of billet production (13:30). Basic form of production steel - the ingot (14:04). Ingots are moved by a machine (14:10). A sales engineer looks over plans (14:31). Innovations in railroad cars with high strength steels (15:05). Stelco train car bumped as a test (15:22). Design plans for a new building (15:38). The soaking pits for ingots to be cooled (15:58). An ingot is compressed by an operator (16:38). A slab of steel is formed on a plate mill (17:37). An operator watches the steel go down a plate mill (18:30). A slab of steel is put into a hot strip mill where the steel is made into a much smaller strip of steel (18:50). Hot or cold strip and sheet steel (19:20). Plate steel ready to go (19:45). Construction of a building; a giant ship is slid off a platform into the water (19:52). Galvanized pipes, culverts, corrosion resisting steel (20:12). Tin is made (20:43). Cans are made for items such as soup (21:00). Steel for automobiles (21:13). Steel for railway cars (21:20). Skelp is steel for pipes (21:23). Pre-painted steel (21:49). Billets become wire rods (21:55). Sprial nails, the ardox (22:11). Huge steel pipes (22:30). On the campus of Hamilton’s McMaster University (23:04). Wabush as seen today (23:18). Stelco Research Centre (23:33). A scientist at work; chemistry experiment (24:04). New steel stealth alloy used on the exterior of the research centre itself (24:43). A scientist does an experiment with steel (25:05). Production steel on the move (25:24). Outside the mill (25:43). Subway; trees being knocked down in the forest (25:52). A train cuts through thick snow on the tracks (26:18). Canadian city skyline (26:35). Cars go over a long bridge (26:49). Ladles of molten iron ore (27:02). End credits (27:14). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit