Steel Goes to Sea

1941
16m

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British Council short film about building ships from steel and the different trades involved. The story is told through the eyes of young David, the son of a journeyman steel fabricator. Dav... Read allBritish Council short film about building ships from steel and the different trades involved. The story is told through the eyes of young David, the son of a journeyman steel fabricator. David spends the day at the shipyard whilst his father toils. He finds many ways to create mi... Read allBritish Council short film about building ships from steel and the different trades involved. The story is told through the eyes of young David, the son of a journeyman steel fabricator. David spends the day at the shipyard whilst his father toils. He finds many ways to create mischief as well as helping out here and there.

Director
- John E. Lewis
Writer
- Terry Bishop

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7.3/10

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Director
- John E. Lewis
Writer
- Terry Bishop

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Vessel #242

This short film about the building of a ship in a British shipyard -- Ship Number 242 during its construction -- is a fairly standard-looking piece, held together by a narrator who sounds a bit like Leslie Howard and some great editing.

Visually, this piece is striking because it seems to be built of shots that made up at the dawn of cinema. The first shot is of the open water and might have been a clip from ROUGH SEAS AT DOVER (1896); other shots seem to include LES FORGERONS (1896), the series of industrial films that Billy Bitzer shot at the Westinghouse factory in 1904 and there is a scene of workmen leaving the shipyard that might have been lifted from the Lumieres' LA SORTIE DES OUVRIERS DE L'USINE from their first show in 1894.

It's the editing together of these clips, these now-standard images with set meanings, that make up the basis of this movie. Try looking at it and figuring out where they were lifted from.