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  1. Portland Iron Foundry, Brighton (1989 Video)

    Director
    John Warr
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 185 min.

    Blaber’s Portland Foundry, a working foundry in Brighton, under threat of development, shown at work. Interviews with the foreman and demonstrations of casting and fettling. Filmed March 1989.

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  2. Blooms of Banjeli, The: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking (1988 Video)

    Director
    Carlyn Saltman
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Carolyn Saltman and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to try to recreate on film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. The result is an...

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  3. Industrial Revolution, The (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...

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  4. Design in Iron (1971 Film)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the importance of cast iron in engineering, to indicate the various types of cast iron, and to illustrate the casting techniques. Covers grey, malleable, nodular and alloy irons, and illustrates green...

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  5. Iron Smelters of Eremi, The (1963 Film)

    Director
    Michael Crosfield
    Subject
    Anthropology; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows in the traditional methods of iron smelting and forging used by the Madi of Uganda. In Eremi only one old man knows how to smelt iron. A younger man goes digging some eight miles away for iron ore,...

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