Thanks!

@PeriscopeFilm

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Donations like this help us rescue, scan and post more endangered films!

Blows my mind that once upon a time in this country you could support a whole family with a job like these men worked!

@Marc757

2 жыл бұрын

Still can.

@Marc757

2 жыл бұрын

@Yuck Foutube what?

@calsavestheworld

2 жыл бұрын

And easily buy a house and two automobiles.

@kidnamedfinger8676

2 жыл бұрын

@@calsavestheworld Two cars? The average family didn't start having two cars until the 1980's

@nickmaas4467

Жыл бұрын

This is actually a really good paying job still, ha

This narrator is KILLING IT. "by their watches and their blue tint glasses shall you know them". Legend.

@manp1039

2 жыл бұрын

i think they are blue light filter glasses. but i could be wrong.

@woodworkerroyer8497

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I wish narrators today had the excitement and passion this one does. He LIKES his job, and it shows.

@seanriopel3132

Жыл бұрын

Almost. He said. "Shall *_YE_* know them"

@GangusBong1

Жыл бұрын

RISING BEFORE YOU LIKE A HARVEST MOON

@theaffliction21

Жыл бұрын

Edwin c Hill

They sure don't make documentary films like they used to any more. The way they talk and the beautiful music is so nostalgic.

There is something incredibly romantic about these tough, dirty, noisy, dangerous jobs!

@TheWizardGamez

Ай бұрын

I once heard that the more divorced we become from an industry, the more we romanticize it. Such is that of the farmer. Today some 3% or less Americans work on or directly adjacent to farms. But my god if everyone doesn’t want to be one. Even with the arduous nature of the old world, people still dream of going down to the river and panning for gold. I don’t mean to talk down on any of these occupations. In fact, I think I’d more people understood the direct impact of their work, the tangible nature of it, they’d be a lot more satisfied. I think that’s what comes with the farm, the mine, the heavy industry. Good tangible. Heavy unmistakable impact. Everyone wants to feel like their doing something for the world

@charleshall6357

15 күн бұрын

Yah it's called death by cancer not only lying for the workers but those living near it

Now. this 1938 movie made by the US Steel has become more valuable and precious, because it include information about the open-hearth steel production process, which in 1938 prevailed in both Allied countries and Axis countries including Japan, but these days almost all forgotten steelmaking process. Thank you for your sharing this movie. A Japanese-Japanese ex-Japanese steel company employee.

All you need to get you through the day at a steel mill is smokes, chew tobacco a ice cold pop and some crunchy snacks.... also having lunch with your lady friend makes the day go by faster

The 57 studebaker had a 289 cubic inch engine , my neighbor had one when I was a kid.

I was fortunate enough to tour the Bethlehem steel mill in Sparrows Point Maryland in the early 80's and see this first hand. My God it was like hell on earth. Huge respect fior these men. This was by no means an easy job.

@AlbertLebel

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure I could take the heat but I would like to see this as you did. Most of us never stop to think where all our steel comes from. These folks work very hard to make it happen. And nowadays it's a science to make so many different types of steel, it's just awesome..

@kevinwheatcroft

3 жыл бұрын

I have been learning about Sparrows Point lately, what a huge mill that was. Seems that steel workers employed there had a great deal of pride in the mill. Sad the super mills are all gone now. In the future, I believe we will regret not being able to produce our own steel

@lukestrawwalker

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinwheatcroft True... steel WON World War 2 (well, that an oil, but steel allowed us to build ships faster than they could sink them, guns faster than the enemy could blow them up, and the tanks and armor to just roll over the enemy and blow them to h3ll... plus the innumerable support trucks and equipment that allowed us to beat the Nazis and Japanese in terms of logistics... the Germans were still using mostly horse and wagons for logistics; trucks were for motorized transport near the fronts. Japanese logistics got no further than the bottom of the ocean once our submarine force came into full effect, basically starving them for resources. At the end the Germans had the most advanced weapons in the world in things like the V-2 missiles and Me-262 jet fighters, but they were SO starved for fuel they had to use oxen to pull the jets out to the runways; they couldn't spare the fuel they'd burn to taxi to the runway from their revetments! Japan was sending school kids into the hills every day to dig pine roots to make synthetic aviation gasoline as well. Oil and steel won the war for the Allies, and lack of it killed the Germans and Japanese in the end. Couple years ago I bought a sheet of 1/4 inch steel plate from a local welding supply to re-deck a shredder for the farm... I went and picked it up when it came in, and when I got it home I wrestled it off the back of my truck and up onto sawhorses so I could measure and cut off the pieces I needed with the acetylene torch. I was shocked and amazed when I flipped the sheet up onto the sawhorses and saw it stenciled "made in KAZAKHSTAN"!!! Basically as far away from SE TX as you can possibly get and still be on Earth LOL:) I was like, "What a sorry state of affairs it is when it's cheaper and easier to get steel from KAZAKHSTAN than it is to get it from the US or anywhere closer for that matter!" My next thought was "WTF are we gonna do if we have to fight another big war someday like that?? It's a h3ll of a long way through a lot of enemy territory or territory easily interdicted by an enemy to get steel from Kazakhstan to the USA LOL:)"... Oh well... Later! OL J R :)

@charlesneilio7861

2 жыл бұрын

My first job 4 days after graduating high school in 1977 was working in sparrows point as an Ironworker. There were over 1000 of us working to upgrade the steel mill. I’m now 62 with 44 years in ironworking and often think back to that place and time.

@evanlevitan2406

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesneilio7861 that whole area became so poor after Bethlehem Steel shut down there

from 1970 to 1982, I was a Millwright @ USSteel Homestead Works 100" plate mill...similar to what we see here from when the slab falls out of the furnace...i mostly worked the shear end, but spent good bit of time on the rolling end...a lot of 16 hour days...rolled a lot of armor plate during the VietNam war...

@matthewh117

2 жыл бұрын

I worked in the roll shop at the 100", and also as an inspector at the end of the shear line. When we rolled floor plate, it was a good payday that week. Laid off from Carrie Furnace in 82. Was in millwright apprenticeship program.

@jessebaca2750

2 жыл бұрын

What state was this in?

@matthewh117

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessebaca2750 Historic Homestead Pa.

@jessebaca2750

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewh117 A lost trade these Men played a significant role in history

@matthewh117

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessebaca2750 Great grandfather lost his arm in the battle of Homestead, grandfather superintendent of plant protection, father division superintendent bloom and structural mill. It's 4 a.m. on Saturday and I'm going to work

What impressed me the most was to learn that in 1938 there were people driving a 1952 Studebaker and 1952 Roadmaster @35:18

@TheGor54

2 жыл бұрын

And the highway system a couple minutes later..

@BrassLock

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 🐵🐵🐵

@hobbitdude1330

Жыл бұрын

Marty where we're going, we won't need steel!

@johncarlisle6865

Жыл бұрын

it's only 7.38 PM, what's the problem?😊

I Miss this North America.

When I was an 8th-grader in Colorado Springs in 1961, we took a Saturday all day school trip to the CF&I steel plant in Pueblo. Rode a Sante Fe train right to the steel yards. Once there, we spent lots of time in the open hearth furnace area, the soaking pits, the rolling mills and the nail and fence making mills. Was an absolute thrill to see the plant in operation. The highlight, at least for me, was witnessing the tapping of an open hearth batch. They did it with an explosive charge that shot some sort of ceramic projectile into the tapping hole. Scared the crap out of all of us but it was like something I've not seen since. I can't imagine the OSHA and safety issues in doing this today.

I was on the platform when the crucible was turned and a sample taken. I couldn't get back far enough. I felt as though I'd burst into flames at any second! What a way to make a living.

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759

2 жыл бұрын

Confirm the year if you can...LOL

@ObservationofLimits

Жыл бұрын

I ran the melt operations for a significantly large foundry company out in the Midwest. It was hard work but I look at these old steel mill workers and my experience pales in comparison.

I worked in the stool foundry and slab mill.....braddock pittsburgh pa.

@johnpooky84

Жыл бұрын

I'm going to assume you meant to say "steel foundry". Houses usually come with at least 2 "stool foundries".

Narrator has me so damn excited I was ready to go work. Then I looked out the window and thought ehhh. Not quite yet. Ive already had a day of sheet strip now blooms.

Mis respetos para estos gringos, su mentalidad, sus sueños y determinación los ha hechos ser los mejores en todo.. es así como se forma la grandeza en los seres humanos, mucho que aprender de ellos...

absolutely beautiful film

LOVE that big gritty industrial stuff - the good old days.

@cpcattin

3 жыл бұрын

You’ve met my wife ?

@ObservationofLimits

Жыл бұрын

The old school power hammers at foundries are one of my favorites.

We used to do this in America.

We gave away the world's largest manufacturing base to China and the middle class was annihilated.

I love the enthusiasm and passion of the narrator.

@randywl8925

Жыл бұрын

He's voice was full of good old American pride. Very uplifting from the narration, music to the product itself. I love the style of old films like this. It makes you appreciate the hard work the men did...... and the little ladies 😁

05:58 Working in a furnace, and smoking a pipe, as if the fumes weren't enough for this tough bloke.

@clutch5sp989

3 жыл бұрын

The steel got cancer just from being in the presence of these tuff guys.

@Nords555

3 жыл бұрын

the workers filterd out all the steel fumes through their cigarettes ;)

@BrandonHall916

3 жыл бұрын

A manly man

@goober208

Жыл бұрын

@@BrandonHall916 no hard hats no safety no nothing

As a pilot I use to fly over Sparrows Point just outside Baltimore at night. It was incredible when they were pouring.

All this high danger work areas and operations and very nearly no safety equipment in sight, health and safety inspectors would be apoplectic with rage to see all the breaches of the regulations that are in place today, and the plant/dockyard/ship and mine owners would go broke just trying to comply with the H&S Gremlins catalogue of breaches, but back then safety took a back seat, today you have to have a 30 minute safety Briefing just to make a cup of tea. Thanks for another excellent look back into industrial heritage, very interesting and informative. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@robertcupp5528

3 жыл бұрын

People were trained to have common sense and know what they are doing back then. You burn yourself once you learned not to do it again...

@edwardtatum9930

3 жыл бұрын

Hell if you did not have cut off limbs or missing parts you were not in the club.

@JDAbelRN

3 жыл бұрын

Right before WW2, didn't have time to worry about that nonsense when nazi Germany and tojo Japan going all out for world domination!

My father worked in the US Steel Homestead works from the 1950's to the 80's right up to the demise of the Homestead works. I don't remember his actual job title but I remember all the interesting work stories he shared with me. He and his fellow workmen were American heroes in my eyes and what a group of hard working bunch of guys who helped make this country what it is today.

@alexm566

2 жыл бұрын

mind sharing some of the stories please?

@jeramiebradford1

Жыл бұрын

He might have been in this film, as it was made in the 1950s.

This is a beautiful video. Like taking a time machine back to when American citizens weren't slaves. When men and women didn't lothe waking up in the morning and going to work. When people had purpose

@cheponis

2 жыл бұрын

Do you understand the narrator is a propagandist for the Capitalists? Listen closely to what he says.

@joshuafroughton4171

2 жыл бұрын

I completely understand the capitalist propaganda in this video. I also understand that capitalism is the best creator of wealth and prosperity for the vast majority of the people that live under it so far discovered. It's not perfect, but it's taken more people out of poverty than any other system, it's the lack of moral values and Marxism that has brought us all to the point were at now.

@booklover6753

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuafroughton4171 Marxism? Obviously, you couldn't even define it properly if asked to on an exam. Typical Republican attempt to divert attention from the real reason. Republican tax changes paid for by corporations.

Marvelous... Splendid. I love these long gone era and periscope for giving us a chance to see it again. Commentary is superb. 👌👍👍

How sad it is to see all of this technical and industrial expertise that is now lost, after having been largely developed here! As steel making is a barometer of the industrial activity, this loss reflects the fact that we have become a consuming foreign-dependent Society, rather than an innovative self-sufficient one. 2022/01/24.

@0MoTheG

2 жыл бұрын

Unless you are British you are wrong. Most industrialized nations still produce specialty steel. Only the common types are exclusively sourced from China.

@663rainmaker

2 жыл бұрын

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@madisonbrown8851

2 жыл бұрын

You can thank the previous generation for that.

@essentia2705

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely false, we never lost it. It's just but built upon for generations to come after these videos and it's very much evolved within our manufacturing processes now. Heed thyself

@seanbell4203

2 жыл бұрын

A great deal of steel is still manufactured in the developed world.

Fascinating film. It looks like 1951-52 judging by the cars.

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759

2 жыл бұрын

I think I see a 5 window chevy p/u 1947 up it would have to be, most others look 30's though...

This film is amazing

It's diffferent now days but the guts, sparks and grit is still there. Through these portals walked the greatest steel workers...

@clutch5sp989

3 жыл бұрын

Now supposed men all have that dooshy anteefa beard look about em.

I miss America

I love how casual these guys in the furnace areas are, just smoking a pipe like they're Sherlock Holmes. The modern Chinese versions all look stressed out. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.

Some of the toughest men ever

@TheDing1701

2 жыл бұрын

And three years later, many of them were tasked with saving the world. I'm sure they said, "OK. Hold my coffee."

Rip Joseph Froehlich and the rest of family that helped run the Mighty Pittsburgh Steel Mills!

From 1976 to 2017 worked at Inland Steel co. to Ispat Inland to Arcelor Mittal, what a hell of a experience. From 35,000 employees to maybe less than 5,000. Guess who help destroy it? Wilbur Ross!

@663rainmaker

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that’s incredible History USA 🇺🇸

Wow! They really took the making of this film to the goal line.

A beautiful 1938 Technicolor film. WOW! Made by Roland Reed who also produced My Little Margie!

@ArmpitStudios

3 жыл бұрын

Not 1938. Look at the '50s cars at the end.

@archstanton_live

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArmpitStudios a mystery! Technicolor did exist before the war. Could the film have been started before the war and finished afterward?

@ArmpitStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@archstanton_live No.

@archstanton_live

3 жыл бұрын

He just grinned and shook my hand and "No" was all he said.

Absolutely brilliant thanks for posting VALUABLE INFORMATION It's like watching pioneers

its amazing to think we drive around in cars made from molten rocks.

g\Give me more like this. I am seriously enchanted by the process. Uuuuughhnn.

@JDAbelRN

3 жыл бұрын

Subscribe to Periscope, an endless variety of any manufacturing possible, excellent historical documentaries.

Wonderful old color film of steel making in the United States in the late 1930s. Judging from the "lake boats" and EJ&E (Elgin, Joliet and Eastern RR) steam locomotive moving the "bottle car" from the blast furnace, this could have been mostly filmed at U.S Steel's Gary Works (Indiana) or South Works (Chicago, IL) or both. Bessemer convertors, as seen in this movie, existed at the older South Works, but never at the Gary Works. Then again, perhaps a shot of Bessemer operations at one of U.S. Steel's Pennsylvania mills was spliced into this movie. I agree with some who pointed out that early 1950s cars are seen in this film. It could be the film was updated a bit in the early '50s, but most of it was still shot in the late 1930s.

@southjerseysound7340

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't have color film widely available until the 50's. There was a lot of stuff from the 30's around in the 50's because of the war.

@ArmpitStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@southjerseysound7340 They also didn't have '50s cars in the '30s, as seen around 35:15.

@jankrusat2150

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArmpitStudios After the US entered WW2 in 1941, production and development of civilian cars was stopped, so that the manufacturers could concentrate on military goods. When the civilian car production started again after WW2, the manufacturers picked up where they left and kept on manufacturing their models from the late 1930s to early 1940s. So many early 1950s cars were actually designed in the late 1930s, early 1940s. As for colour film, e.g. Disney's Snowhite was shot on colour film in the late 1930s.

@ArmpitStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@jankrusat2150 I know all about car production around WWII (not WW2), but no, designs popular in the '50s were NOT designed 20 years earlier. This is NOT a '30s film. As for color film, sure, very rich movie studios had it, but not small-time documentary makers like made this.

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759

2 жыл бұрын

@@southjerseysound7340 Dude its technicolor from the 30's just like Looney Tunes was color from the 30's.

Behold the might of the nation we once were. Though this was hard work, it was honest work, which had a benefit to society.

This was one of Roland Reed's first industrial film productions. He was previously a film editor for Chesterfield Pictures (a "Poverty Row" Hollywood studio) before forming his own company. By 1950, he was also producing television programs as well {Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER", "THE BEULAH SHOW", "MY LITTLE MARGIE", "ROCKY JONES- SPACE RANGER", "WATERFRONT"}.

@CuriousEarthMan

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting to read that. I'm stopping the video because the narration is over the top for me. I love the industrial-propaganda style of that age, but this version, this director's or producer's choice for actual tone is just too far. It has the feel of over-urgency, like someone desperate to be heard and be believed. Your words make sense now. Maybe it was just his first try. Maybe he toned it down after, for others. Thank you!

@fromthesidelines

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Reed continued to produce industrial and public relation films through the mid-1960's.

@fromthesidelines

2 жыл бұрын

Edwin C. Hill was a well known radio news commentator of his day. However, like Lowell Thomas, he was also available for narrating films such as this.

Men who are forever out of work, and land forever destroyed for their children. The beauty of steel.

This 1938 film contained a scene with automobiles that were built in the early 1950s. I suspect this film was made in the early 1950s.

Makes me wish I had worked in a steel plant, at l;east for a year or two. Amazing if you can do this job for 30+ years, and still have your health. also, how did they make the machines that do all the processing and shaping? the supports and foundations must be beyond massive, and the moving parts are either easy to replace or last a life time.

Congratulations for a superb production. From Australia

Really cool “Hardhats” and “Safety glasses” lol

The chemistry is fascinating. and to think of the oxidizing process? Oh my god.

Ive hauled it for the country to use God Bless The Truckers

Impressive old footage. I wish the film ID and time code was way smaller though...

I love these sounds

WWII broke out when we were at the top of our game.

Props to the gent at 5:55 taking samples with a pipe in his mouth.....👍

Incredible display of workmanship.

Smoking on the job Lord how times have changed.

i want to go back in time and give the crew that filmed this 4k cameras and equipment...

@johnpooky84

Жыл бұрын

The only downside I can see to that is that people will think the video was fake, or a reenactment, then, due to the 4k quality.

We had to import folks from other states and country to work in our mills. I work in Cleveland mill and love it.

Am reading Magnetic Mountain - Stalinism as a Civilization by historian Stephen Kotkin about the Soviet Union’s almost comically audacious effort to construct the Magnitogorsk steel plant “from scratch” in the southern Urals near an enormous source of iron ore. I realized I really didn’t know how steel was made in the 1930s and this film is excellent. Designed by the same USA engineers and metallurgists Arthur McKee & Company that building most of USA’s state-of-the-art plants, Magnitogorsk had to be built and run by an almost illiterate and constantly changing army of peasants on an absurdly unrealistic 24 month schedule. “Steel” represented “modernization” and industrial independence. Interestingly, the super-hyped significance of having an independent high performance “steel industry” in one’s country carried a huge amount of political importance. It still does today.

At 17:30 ,I can't stop seeing nubs,,nubs on those ingnots just like the nubs we see on all megalithic constructions ,that came from an advanced society that proceeds our own.

This narrator could make miniature golf played by a bunch of 5 year olds interesting.

Worked at Chaparral steel in Midlothian TX. Continuous castors in the 90s

Very nice production. Color really brings life to these old films.

35:44 green p/u looks like 5 window Chevy?? 1947 and up...

@markdraper3469

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, that's the thing, and the kind nudge to Periscope would be, "gee, maybe this was a recut from '48." It's possible this was the one place they needed an edit to bring it up to date. Notice there was none of the self congratulation for winning the war so common until about 1960.

1938 film but updated. 1950's era cars near the end.

"Today, on 'How It's Made'"

27:45 GOOD GUY MIKE WITH THE COFFEE!

I miss big steel and big coke that made it possible. Breathing in coke sulfur fumes one of my favorite memories the first time I went to hell.

@knockhello2604

3 жыл бұрын

big coke

@asafgl4281

3 жыл бұрын

@@knockhello2604 sounds bad...

@rdallas81

Жыл бұрын

Coke. Its the ingredient in the process. If you thought it was hot in a smelting plant, just wait until you go to real hell. There are no shifts in hell. Only eternity. Choose your faith wisely.

Thanks!

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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Why do I see several 1950 and 1951 automobiles in a 1938 documentary?

Minnesota, with its 6 billion tons of iron in the ground, has 75 years of iron, based on the current production of 80 million tons of steel a year.

That guy who has chaw and a pipe going at the same time.

Back when men and women knew what life was about and who they were.

@JDAbelRN

3 жыл бұрын

Right before WW2

The metal that gave its name to the greatest football team around...or vice versa.

The metal named for the greatest football team ever!

@Hopeless_and_Forlorn

3 жыл бұрын

High-carbon Cowboy?

@charlesseymour1482

Жыл бұрын

Steelers Pittsburgh

Secondary Steel making was not developed at that time. So it is such magical. Now we have well defined processes and accurate gauges the magic is lost. Still the drama of the drama is more than the manicured movie of today.

fantastic

Almost makes me want to be an American.

amazing how technology advanced in the 20th century. do we have anything that compares for the last 22 years?

I work at Gary works pretty cool

@scottrayhons2537

2 жыл бұрын

Is Gary Indiana still making steel?

It's interesting seeing the dynamic of what got the american family by back in the day. Jobs deemed so painfully laborsome most would refuse to do yet the system would always need steel and would never stop till they we're shut down for labor export to other countries.

awesme vid man*

The freighter at 2:12 is the SS James A Farrell

Jesus...these guys didn't even have heat resistant suits on!

@rdallas81

Жыл бұрын

Never use the Lords name in vain. You don't know what that means now. But you absolutely will on the very last day which is coming faster than the 5 months which passed since you left that comment

Zinc! Come back, zinc!

What control the power of these mechanical machines? Was this before hydraulics?

Can't you cram a few more commercials down our throats?

@pauleohl

3 жыл бұрын

Install Adblocker and the ads are gone.

We need an America like this again. Men and women working for prosperity and providing for their families. Able to be proud of themselves and our country. No LGBTQ+ NO DEI No Liberal BS like we have today. Just proud to be an American 🇺🇸

In just a few years we've gone from an exploding middle class to an imploding middle class.

@dougmapper3306

3 жыл бұрын

@Danger Bear Minimum wage in 1950 was $0.75/hr. Inflation-adjusted, that's $8.14/hr today. It's actually about the same, but back then "scraping by" didn't include a daily morning frappuccino and a $1000 iphone. It wasn't until the 1940s that unemployment or employer-sponsored health insurance were even a thing. We have it comparatively good.

@brosefmcman8264

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Obama 🤮

@Sennmut

3 жыл бұрын

The blessings of socilaism.

@lukestrawwalker

3 жыл бұрын

@@dougmapper3306 True... and a house was about $10,000-15,000 new and a new car about $1,500-2,000, unless you really wanted something fancy which was more. Or you could buy a new pickup back then even cheaper for basic transportation. Back then the major purchases were new appliances which would last for years, even decades... refrigerators replacing iceboxes, new stoves, later on adding electric dishwashers and later still microwave ovens, but the main thing people were quick to buy in the 50's was a TV set... and back then they WERE pretty darn expensive when you adjust for inflation. Heck the first VCR I ever bought, a Sears toploader VHS which was a year-end closeout, I paid about $350 for back in about 1985... they'd been out for awhile but our family couldn't afford the $700-1,000 price tag for them when they first came out. Back in 84-85 that was REAL MONEY-- you could buy a decent used car for that! It basically took my entire income off the farm that year as a 15 year old kid to pay for that VCR! It was much the same with TV's in the 50's. Grandpa bought the first TV in our rural area back in the early 50's, and the neighbors would come over to watch TV quite a bit because so few people had them back then, particularly in farm/rural areas. I don't know what he paid for it (I'm sure it was several hundred dollars, which would buy you a good solid used car back then!) and it had about a 7 inch screen on it or so LOL:) Heck my parents and siblings came over to Grandma's house (I lived with her after my Grandpa died since I ran the farms for her) to watch tapes they rented on MY VCR and would be up to all hours of the night, just bugged us to death. They FINALLY sprang to buy their own VCR the next summer... Back in the 50's there just wasn't that much stuff to buy, and what you DID buy was usually EXTREMELY good quality and durable compared to the "throw-away junk" we get today. Just different times. Heck I still use some farm equipment built back in the 50's, for stuff that really doesn't change much like plows, most of the stuff built back then is WAY superior than stuff built years later... Later! OL J R :)

@firefox5926

2 жыл бұрын

also gone from strong unions to no unions and from having a ussr scaring the rich with the threat of revolution to...

Was this film colorized? I didn't know they had color and sound films in the 1930s.

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

This was made using the Technicolor process -- and yes color films have been around for 100 years.

I wonder how. Those places look like this days...

@williambryant5946

3 жыл бұрын

No not in the United States. It's all gone. That's what they look like in China because steel comes from there now along with everything else.

@immortanjoe9362

3 жыл бұрын

@@williambryant5946 US Steel, Arcelor Mittal, Nucor, and a bunch of other companies produce steel across the US. It's far from gone.

@williambryant5946

3 жыл бұрын

@@immortanjoe9362 Excuse me. 95% gone from what it was in this video.

@JDAbelRN

3 жыл бұрын

@@immortanjoe9362 and Worthington Steel.

I think this is more like 1950? Look at cars in last few minites.

I believe this film was made in the early 50's, judging by the cars toward the end?

For it to be in 1938, they sure do have a lot of 1948 cars in it. Time traveling sons of guns.

@monstertrucker35

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennethprocak5176 so even though this documentary was supposedly made in 1938, they were somehow able to get trucks designed in 1948 in it. Got it.

@kennethprocak5176

2 жыл бұрын

@@monstertrucker35 my 40yrs in a meltshop gave me brain fad, yeh the ending has added updated footage.

When lake traffic was icebound in winter. I miss those days, no worries though the US government assures us global warming isn't happening and is nothing to worry about.

KZread needs a 2-thumbs up . . . . . the ole Siskell and Ebert sign of quality (;

Jesus Christ. This narrator must have used the "soup" and "serving it's master, man" line like six times each. We get it.

It's not 1938, more like 1948.

@s.willey6536

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, some of those cars in the last frames are late '40's and maybe early '50's. I think I saw a few from 1953.

@shopshop144

3 жыл бұрын

no talk of war

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759

3 жыл бұрын

@@shopshop144 States was not involved till 1942, so that's why no talk.

@shopshop144

3 жыл бұрын

@@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 The US wasn't fighting the war, but they were making some preparations for what they expected. Plus we were helping Canada and the UK. The lend/lease program was signed in early 41, and had been functioning for a year before that. So, steel production wasn't just a casual concern.