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Title: ETNA STEEL MILL

Reference number: 1036

Date: 1967*

Sponsor: [ Colville's Ltd.]

Production company: [ Park Films]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.52 mins

Description: Shot inside the former Etna steel mill in Motherwell, now demolished, the film shows the shaping of a steel square section bar from the original billet taken from the furnace.

Background info file and film maker's notes. Scene with man with a metal hand winding the electric motor. The electric motor in Etna Steel Mill was rumoured to have come from a First World War German Submarine.

Shotlist: No credits. General shots of the mill. Shots of a magnetic crane. A bar-cutting machine (2.50); Inside the mill. A white hot billet is taken from the furnace. It is manhandled back and forth through various sets of rollers by men with long-handled grippers (known as rollers) , until it is shaped into a long, square section bar (9.52)