You are bidding for a video record of the long discarded 16mm film described below.   When the film  was made it provided a unique insight into its particular subject.  Over the last thirty years a number of ethusiasts realised that such films provided an untapped source of information on past techniques and methods At some time in the past it would have been rescued after being discarded as obsolete by the original owners .

Any money raised from the sale of this video will go towards offsetting the costs of more rescues. 

This DVD recorded during a showing of the short  film described.

Summary of Contents  503 

An unusual film this. Although  made in Britain,  to make it suitable for the United States distribution  the narrator has a pronounced American accent. From the credits the film was released in 1955.  

              Unusually it looks at how the ingredients that go into the blast furnace are prepared. Once the iron ore arrives it passes through crushers and then screened.  it also looks at how the small dust is sintered with coke dust to produce lumps suitable for use in the furnace.  Plenty of shots of the various conveyors in use.

  Unless you were actually involved in the process you would have little idea of what went on and of course now it is too late!

Also answered is why coal has to be heated driving off vapours  the result is coke. Covered is recovering by products and  the pushing out of white hot coke quenched with plenty of water to cool it down. Again there is much hidden heavy engineering. 

Limestone  is treated more superficially  before showing the skips charging the furnace. What is surprising is the way the air is preheated   before use. Interestingly  the operative has some pretty hefty controls to operate . Apart from obviously being a very big plant there are no clues as to which  Steelworks  is  featured.  From early viewings the consensus is that much of the filming was done at Corby Steelworks  at a time when steel  production was at its maximum. For anybody with a relative who worked as a  steel maker this film gives some impression of what the job involved and why it was done. What of course it cannot convey is the heat, the smell, the noise,  and the dust.  For that you will have to rely on your imagination or accounts from relatives that worked there .   The film runs  15 minutes but is veritable time capsule of 60 years ago. 

 A recent viewer who worked at Corby later  is certain the coke ovens are Corby but is not so confident  whether the blast furnaces  and locomotives are as he remembers them but equally he has not identified in that case where they are. More opinions welcome   

Black and White 15 minutes.

Technical Note. This is a DVD record of a private screening. Transfer quality is to enable the contents to be studied rather than to achieve the  high standard achieved by professional broadcast and commercial video  publishers

.However this does mean that you if you are the successful bidder  I will prepare your copy and send it to you BEFORE expecting you to pay.  Assuming you are find it proves to be what you expected from the description all I ask is that you pay preferably by PayPal within SEVEN DAYS of the DVD reaching you.I can make this offer because so far with few exceptions everybody who has purchased a DVD this way has been fascinated by the contents of the video they selected and only too happy to pay.

To my mind that seems a very fair way to work for both parties.