Japanese Post-War Industrial Life

Shot List:

00:00:06;21

Japanese men load pine logs on a truck near the city of Beppu on the Island of Kyushu, Japan. MS Interior of Japan Iron and Steel Mill, hot steel pouring out of ladle at Yawata Steel Works Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. MS Interior of Japan and Iron Steel Mill, smelting oven, Japanese workers throwing burnable material into fire pit of smelting oven. MS Smelting oven and slag drain. MS Stock pile of steel ingots on both sides of the narrow gauge RR tracks. Looking SE. MS Small shuttle engine moving supplies to ovens then a pan shot to R showing stock piles of ingots.

00:03:03;13

MLS General view of Japan Iron and Steel Mill as seen from vicinity of the scrap pile area. Another view showing the scrap steel and iron pile and the overhead crane. Pan up to a row of blast furnace smokestacks with no smoke coming out of them. MLS Furnace area and RR tracks. Note small steam engine moving supplies of iron ore to ovens. High angle overlooking the plant as seem from atop the dolomite building.

00:04:12;16

Three Japanese laborers bringing in armfuls of shovels and stacking them next to a drilling machine that drills a hole through the handle so that a pin may be inserted in order to hold the blade and handle together. MS The drill operator picking up a shovel and placing it in the drilling machine so that the hole can be made. MS A Japanese laborer making frying pans on a hydraulic press.

00:05:22;28

A Japanese laborer heating a roughly formed plow shear in a small coal heating furnace. This is done prior to putting the plow shear into hydraulic press where it is given its final shape. MS The Japanese bringing the heated plow shear over to the hydraulic press where another Japanese puts it into the press. MS Of two women putting an edge onto the plow shears by using a grinding machine. Taken at the heat tempering room of the Japan Iron and Steel Works. They are making farm and home implements. Made armor plate during the war.

00:06:31;29

A series of shots showing method used in the making of coal brochettes for heating. In this series of cuts we see an old Japanese housewife mixing the coal dust with water, then forms little patties with her hand and then places them on a piece of tin which covers a static supply of water. Here the patties remain for several days to dry.

00:08:06;01

Japan destroys war equipment. Workers community of the Higashi Misome Coal Mine in Ube, Japan. Group of Japanese workers carrying brass casings and placing them in stacks. showing Japanese workers cutting Army tanks into scrap metal. Man in foreground using cutting torch, while in background stacks of what is left of army tanks. CU of man with torch. A freight car loaded with Japanese army tanks moves into disassembly area. Stationary shot of flat cars loaded with tanks.

00:09:10;07

Escalator located within the Japan Iron and Steel Mill located E side of coke battery C. Looking up the escalator as seen from inside. E side of bank C, coke battery as seen from the ground looking N along the bank of ovens with battery #1 in foreground. Various scenes of the bank of batteries containing coke ovens.

00:11:10;15

LS Looking across the entrance of Maeda Anchorage showing the Mitsubishi Glass Factory. Shipping activity within the Maeda Anchorage showing tugboats and barges entering. LS Panning from E to W across the Maeda Anchorage on the left is the Mitsubishi Glass Factory.

00:12:07;25

A series of quick cuts taken inside the blast furnace area of Japan Iron and Steel Mill. Hot molten slag pouring down the way. Pan shot along the fiery ways. Revers angle, closer up. Typical Japanese steel workers, very close scenes. MS CU A typical Japanese steel worker. He looks around and towards the blast furnace, then towards the camera. MLS Group of four Japanese steel workers walking towards camera. In the background, the blast furnace area. Two takes.

00:13:16;12

A Japanese and his primitive, but effective, wood burning puffed rice and puffed corn gadget in the streets of Ube. The townspeople bring their rice here to have it "shot out of a cannon" similar, in principle, even though smaller than the equipment used by the makers of American puffed rice. It is difficult to tell whether the onlooking kids consider it a delicacy or just plain nourishment. CU The puffed wheat gadget, its operator and the kids who follow him. CU The puffed wheat gadget, with a wood fire burning under it, being hand operated. MS A crowd gathered around the gadget. CU The puffed wheat being shot from the machine as the pressure is released and the puffed rice is exploded into a wire cage.

00:13:53;02

The scenes below were recorded at the Japan Iron and Steel Works at Yawata. This area has been referred to as the Pittsburgh of Japan and the Little Ruhr of Japan. Miscellaneous scenes of the operation of the electrical furnace and assorted shots to show the overall setup. Rear of the electric furnace showing an open section where men are shown removing gun barrels from the open fire.

00:15:48;26

Japan destroying war LS establishing shot showing the open hearth area of the Japan Iron and Steel Works. This view shows the scrap yard which is filled to overflowing with Japanese war ordnance and material salvage for smelting. Another view of the stockpile. Frame shot overhead moving crane, then a short pan to stock yard, followed by a very short scene of the narrow gauge engine and coke cars. Several quick cuts showing workers loading scrap metal on the cars by means of magnetic lift. MS Several angles, same as above. MS Small gauge switch engine and coke cars.

00:16:58;16

Open hearth area showing thirteen smokestacks, sentinels of inactivity. One of the smokestacks is working. Also a few different angles and views of same subject. MLS Pan L to R bank of coke ovens in operation. Bank contains 90 ovens (50 ovens at S end and 40 ovens at N end). Front end of coke oven battery. MC Same as above, closer shot pan up from base of battery, then pan continues L to R. MLS Area opposite battery shown above which was inefficient. MS Same area and subject as above but different angle, covered with two shots. LS A modern coke oven battery in operation, bank C, battery #6. LS A modern coal conveyor system which brings blended and washed coal to the coal towers located above the center of banks A, B and C. Belt conveyor system is used. View looking at the W side of the system.

00:20:20;25

LS Of coal unloading facilities looking N from the Japan Iron and Steel Works, on the NE side of Kukino Oka. Miscellaneous shots of dock area and coal cranes which are not in operation (one out of three were working) very little high grade coal storage area. Miscellaneous shots of Japan Iron and Steel Works. Transfer cranes taking coal from ships and transferring same to barges which are tied up alongside the ship. The cranes were also taking coke from the factory area and transferring it to the barges and freight cars. All scenes taken on the NE side of Kukino Oka. LS Of bank C, battery 6, looking at N side, showing coke being pushed. Closer shot showing coke being pushed into coke car prior to the quenching operation.