Pageant of Steel (Part 1) (sound)

[Music] la [Applause] let's keep it clear in front of camera too this [Applause] time well this rehears a lot to do it don't you think any kind of luck at all are you on your starting marks Don I think so it's nearly gone all right everybody we'll take it from the beginning this is a dress rehearsal Don take your opening a little slower we want our television audience to know that we're in the Coliseum and what this Exposition is all about sheet steel right well we'll take it straight through film included from the beginning [Music] music good evening and welcome to the fabulous Coliseum Columbus Circle New York and to America's First annual pageant of Steel this actually is an exposition about you because much of your life and what's good in it depends on steel and matter who you are or what your living is for all of us steel is everything and the kind of Steel every one of us meets every day is this sheet steel and I mean everyone let's say you're a gardener all right let's talk to one right over [Music] here [Music] I know a puran doesn't believe in chattering when there's work if any would not work neither should he eat Thessalonians 310 but I did want to ask you about these tools oh as a man with an eye for fine tools iron aren't they iron and from England but I must confess my muscles ache after a day with them I can believe that look how thick the iron is well iron is iron must be thick to be strong what are you doing with that SI sharpening it of course with a hammer well it was not too dull to use a stone this is faster though only rot iron had some temper how'd you like some new tools with muscles of Their Own and real temper I'd like tea without the tax too come over here watch this I'll show you how to cut grass or hay easy as [Music] walking it's too easy must be sinful it's no sin to save your youth why wear yourself on seems easy enough for a child what is this metal sheet steel steel but steel is for swords and clock Springs it's too fine to use not today in the 20th century steel is for everything this a sheet steel so is this and and this gardeners have all the best of it these days gardeners and everybody else take a look at this what might this be we call it an outdoor living room you don't live out of doors as much as we can we have the furniture to make it comfortable and beautiful and yet take the weather this is sheet steel disapprove but this has great comfort must be a [Music] sin is this a fireplace well not exactly a fireplace we call it a grill you can move it wherever you need it the steel in this is thicker than the iron in the shovel of course we can make steel any thickness we like for any job how' you like to see some real Husky uses for sheet [Music] steel here's a grownup set of garden tools only with this equipment a couple of men can cultivate a garden of hundreds of Acres our colony had these tools would have been putting the cart before the horse by 300 100 years before we could get sheet steel and the quantities we need we had to invent the continuous Mill for instance this is all gibberish to my ears of course this is strictly 20th century you'd find the mill in a place like this it's one of the great plants of Bethlehem Steel company there was a time when we said steel mill we thought only of rail and big steel beams but today at Bethlehem more than half the iron ore out in the yards goes into products for everyday living steel making has changed our lives in just two generations although it's one of our oldest crafts iron has always been smelted the same way with Limestone and fuel these days the fuel is Coke the beginning is at the blast furnace where oxygen and earthy materials are separated from the iron here is the hot blood of Industry this is the basic substance of nearly every durable product we want and buy iron but the iron is only iron it still carries elements that must be eliminated or brought into New Balance in The Open Hearth furnace Electronics measure and control this infernal automatically and somehow a miracle [Applause] [Music] happens now it is steel but this is merely the start steel making goes on even in the ladle and the mold the Mysteries continue in the red heart of the steel too hot to approach but still carefully controlled by the metallurgist now the steel begins to cool and solidify the Ingot is [Music] [Applause] [Music] formed then in an inferno the steel is heated again not just to any temperature but to a right degree of brilliant incandescence this Ingot is ready to be [Music] rolled here with the force of giants the Ingot is lengthened into a slab as it is compacted the steel grains are refined to meet all the trials no other material can take so well the pounding pulling the wear that steel shrugs off every [Music] day by now the surfaces have been inspected and prepared and each group of slabs has its own metallurgical [Applause] pedigree their movement is scheduled as tight as a passenger train and accounted for at every station item four product account 5640 ordered weight 360,000 lb customer a steel drum manufacturer so this slab will be steel drums the next next may be an automobile frame or refrigerator or water tank