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Steel: Man’s Servant
About this film
Highly praised industrial film showing the production of steel. Steel: Man’s Servant was shot in U.S. Steel mines and mills in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania and was considered by documentarian Pare Lorentz “the most beautiful color picture ever made” ( Business Screen 1, no. 2). Note: Produced in 35mm three-strip Technicolor at a cost of $250,000. Steel: Man’s Servant was shot in ten weeks and became the company’s major informational film, replacing the six-reel Story of Steel (1926). Steel: Man’s Servant was distributed in many versions: a 16mm Kodachrome version; a theatrical short called Men Make Steel (10 minutes); a black-and-white version for industry viewers (80 minutes); and two other black-and-white versions (66 and 38 minutes). All told, it was reported to have been shown to nearly 10 million viewers during two decades of distribution ( Business Screen 21, no. 3). Roland Reed Productions was the industrial film branch of the Hollywood studio Selznick International Pictures.
Directors & creators
Roland Reed Productions
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