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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This color newsreel film from 1959 titled “Steel Rhythm” acted as promotional material for the Steel, Peech, & Tozer branch of the United Steel Companies Limited. The film highlights the continuous cycle of operations consisting of charging, melting, refining, tapering and teaming that took place at the Templeborough Melting Shop and Rolling Mills. Steel, Peech, & Tozer met the steel demand created by WWI with the Templeborough Melting Shop which was the largest melting shop in Europe at the time of its opening in South Yorkshire. During the post-war period, the United Steel Companies Limited forged a fruitful relationship with Wallace Productions who were in charge of producing top-notch advertising material that disseminated knowledge on the industry and proved the company’s social relevance. This particular film featured A.V. Curtice as producer and supervising editor as well as Max Anderson as director and scriptwriter. It is also important to note that prior to mass distribution to the public, the film was screened and approved by the British Board of Film Censors. Opening credits (0:10). Templeborough and Rotherham Melting Shops in Sheffield (0:38). Steel worker training center (0:49). Melting shop employee amenities (1:12-1:43). Water purification building that purifies water from the River Don (1:59). Summary of factory fuel and resource usage: coal, gas, iron, oil etc. (2:08-2:36). Works Council and Production Committee employee contributions to the greater community (2:41). Beginning of segment discussing steel production at the Templeborough Melting Shop (3:04). Open-hearth furnaces and process of melting down steel (3:22-4:58). Other processes occurring during the time of the melt (5:00). Process of making metal completely molten and then refined (5:29). Maintenance work on furnaces (6:10). End of the melting period (6:27). Refining stage after samples of metal and slag have been taken (7:03). Chemical analysis of molten metals in the laboratory (7:14-8:15). Lime and iron oxide added to molten metal (8:22). Use of a Quantometer for further analysis (8:46). Positioning of steel teeming ladle and various molds (9:19). Temperature taken (9:35). Other teams joining to help in the tapping operation (10:06). Last sample taken before tapping (10:17). Molten steel begins to flow out of the furnace (10:49). Final carbon analysis to know the amount of coal needed (11:08). Addition of alloys to proper specification (11:37). Flow of molten steel from the slag into other ladles (12:02). Dolomite is thrown to create a barrier to prevent further overflowing (12:29). Uphill method of teeming (13:01-14:00). Steel ingots being transported to soaking pits in preparation for the cogging mill (14:09). Cogging mill (14:43). Maintenance and control of heat in soaking pits (15:08). Production specification information passed to the plan office in the cogging mill (16:05). Cogging mill process (16:53). Function of oxyacetylene torches (18:36). Billet mill (18:48). Roughing stands (19:07). Continuous finishing stands (19:34). Cooling beds (20:08). Bar mill where billets go on to the finishing stands (20:25). Oscillating bed or “Dragon’s Teeth” (21:23). Reheated slabs rolled down into strips in another mill (21:41). Steel strip emerges (21:59). Finished steel coil rolls on production belt (22:30). Further processing of rolls in the cold rolling mill (22:34). Further refinements of the steel strip (22:45-23:12). Ingot entering cogging mill (23:15). Heavy forging press (23:52). Team plans how they will forge the shape of their ingot (24:11). Forging processes (24:41). Forging process of wheels (25:39-27:40). Forging of railway tires more specifically (27:43-28:59). Forging of smaller rings (29:03). Hammer forging (30:00). Giving railway axles necessary grain pattern and contours (34:30). Railroad axles enter heat treatment (31:27). Quenching tank for springs (32:23). Tempering furnace (32:36). Finished product of steel spring (32:43). Another large forging in the heavy press (32:54). Mill workers going home at the end of their shifts (33:07). Examples of steel’s everyday uses and functions i.e. Singer sewing machine and steam train (33:21-34:15). Closing credits (34:16). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
