Steel Town: Youngstown, OH 1944

Shot List:

00:00:30:06

Low aerial view of Man on the Monument statue in Downtown's Central Square Federal Plaza Youngstown, Ohio. This statue names all of Youngstown's Civil War dead and has stood in the center of Youngstown since July 4, 1870. Scene of people at public transportation bus stop as bus arrives.

00:00:38:04

Street scenes of people, cars, automobiles, city bus, stores, and clothing fashions in a small American city in the 1940's. Shift change at a steel mill or industrial plant.

00:01:38:05

Freight train bringing in the raw materials to a steel mill; iron ore, coal and limestone. CU of large overhead crane bucket picking-up iron ore. Skip hoists take the iron ore up to top of blast furnaces, the first step in making steel.

00:02:41:18

Various scenes inside a steel processing mill beginning at the blast furnace area. Voice over explains each step of the process and the duty of each worker in the plant.

00:04:09:18

Scenes of a typical American family at Christmas time in the 1940s; Christmas tree, presents, children, and family members.

00:04:53:02

Interior of a steel processing mill; open hearth area, slagging crew at work, charging a furnace with scrap iron. Dumping a ladle of molten iron from the blast furnace into a furnace.

00:07:02:21

High school football players on the sideline bench at a high school football game in the 1940s. Footage of a high school football game, CU of football fans in the stands cheering. Note padded football helmet worn by high school football players in 1944. High school band playing on the sidelines. High school students in food line and eating lunch in school cafeteria. 1940s teenage fashions and hair styles of high school boys and girls.

00:09:03:17

Open hearth area of a 1940s steel mill. Inspecting a sample of the molten steel.

00:09:51:03

Local Youngstown Symphony Orchestra in the 1940s. The conductor and musicians are steel workers, their wives and daughters.

00:11:04:23

The open hearth gang let the molten steel out of the furnace. The pit gang throw in the special alloys for this batch of steel. A ladle of molten steel is moved over to a line of ingot molds. The ingots are moved to the blooming mill by rail for shaping. Scenes of shaping steel ingots into slabs. The slabs are then cut into specified lengths. The cut slabs are then rolled or flattened into long sheets of steel.

00:14:25:27

Industrial Plant workers leaving factory at end of their work shift.