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Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com 1960s film "Steel Plate — Imagine What You Can Do With It" was produced by The Committee of Steel Plate Producers of American Iron and Steel Institute which illustrates the state of steel production industry at that time. The film outlines the various ways that steel is being used in a variety of industries for products like bridges to spaceships like Apollo 11. The purpose of the film is to promote and encourage viewers to consider a profession in the steel industry by showing the many different options available from fabricators to welders or engineers.  Overall, the film does this by outlining the major engineering achievements that the steel industry has made possible and how professionals participated in these achievements.  0:15 Rocket launch and lift-off 00:19 Nuclear power plant 00:28 New York City skyline 00:35 Tanker ship at sea 00:40 Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor 00:45 Plano water tower in Plano, Texas 00:47 Building out of PDM steel 1:05 An industrial steel plant 1:12 Engineer working in a office 1:18 Water pipes being assembled 1:19 Footage of penstocks 1:23 ‘Peoples Gas’ steel liquid storage tank 1:24 Shot of a offshore drilling structure 1:26 View of an offshore production deck 1:29 John F. Kennedy Space Center with a missile launch in Florida 1:32 Supersonic wind tunnel 1:35 Pressure vessels 1:38 Nuclear reactor vessel 1:44 Water tower (possible in Wilmington, North Carolina?) 1:47 Aerial view of a football field and stadium 1:48 LH2 Storage tank for the Apollo program at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida 1:51 Water tower in Poinciana, Osceola County, Florida 1:55 Views of industrial steel plants 2:05 View of an offshore oil rig 2:08 A ship at sea 2:10 Aerial view of agricultural field 2:13 View of an undisturbed forest  2:27 Laborers welding steel 2:29 Workmen fabricating with steel 2:45 Opening Credits: Names of producer and title 3:06 Pressure vessels of solid steel plate 3:09 Hemispherical heads in production 3:22 Crane moving materials 3:28 PDM Creeper Derrick 3:33 Ichaod Stationary Derrick 3:51 Flat bottom steel plate oil tanks 4:01 Bottomless tank for offshore oil storage at sea 4:46 Several views of a semi-submersible stationary platform 5:21 Views of machinery constructed from steel in the Arctic, Alaska and the desert 5:33 Views of steel mills and their equipment 6:02 Newly forged steel on conveyor belts in a factory 6:24 Mesta Machine Company equipment (potentially a Forging press?) 6:51 Shots of men working with various steel products and machinery 7:37 Mesta Machine Company Forging Press (?) 9:00 Views of steel plate being welded by a variety of methods: arc welding, inert gas or electro slag welded, submerged arc welded, overlay welded or underwater welded 9:35 Two steel workers welding across from each other. 10:01 Steel Plate Fabricators inspecting welded steel with a variety of methods: X-ray inspection, magnetic particle inspection, ultrasonic inspection, eddy current inspection, dye penetrant inspection 10:37 An A.L. Mechling Barge Lines Inc. barge 10:59 Views of steel plates being assembled 11:24 Impressed steel heads being assembled  11:39 View of Niagara Falls 11:55 Penstocks being aligned and keyed by workers at the Robert Moses Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station 12:17 Workers inspecting welds on the penstocks 13:08 View of water tanks 13:43 Wisconsin Natural Gas Company Alloy steel liquid hydrogen storage tank 13:52 Steel vacuum chamber for testing lunar orbits 13:55 Basic oxygen steelmaking vessel in production 14:04 St Louis gateway arch 14:30 The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri being constructed 14:58 Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor 15:20 Shots of the various workmen working different positions in the steel production field 16:05 Aerial view of San Francisco, California 16:08 Martin Luther King and Eads bridges in St Louis, Missouri with the Gateway Arch 16:18 End credits Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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