News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Home and Away

Issue

Issue No.

13

Date Released

1958

Length of issue (in feet)

495

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Safety First
• 2. Dogs at School
• 3. Steam for Steel

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

BFI synopsis: An item on the work and procedures at David Colville’s Ravenscraig Steel Works, Motherwell. It opens with general views of the works, and proceeds to shots inside a blast furnace and on open hearth furnace. Babcock boilers are shown in operation at Ravenscraig, and the rolling mill is seen, where steel plates are shaped in a press. The film ends with a Pickford’s van transporting a similar Babcock boiler by road.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Road transport

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Producer

Cyril Randell

Director

Peter Ward

Editor

Robert Morgan

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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Web

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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