STEEL: MAN’S SERVANT 1938 UNITED STATES STEEL DOCUMENTARY MD74702

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Produced in 1938 by United States Steel, “Steel: Man’s Servant“ presents a lavish Technicolor look at the steel industry prior to WWII. Narrated by Edwin Hill and directed by Roland Reed, with amusical score by Robert Armbruster, the 37-minute film typically accompanied a dramatic feature film in release. The film presents mining activities on the Mesabi Range, with an Oliver Iron Mining Co. steam shovel ripping iron ore from the ground at the film’s start. The film goes on to show the path of iron ore to Duluth’s docks and steel plant before most of it arrived in the mills and manufacturing facilities of the eastern United States. The movie contains rare color images of pre-WWII American including open pit and underground mines, steel mills, blast furnaces, Great Lakes ore carriers, steam locomotives, steel bridges, skyscrapers, h