The Last Cast - Trailer 1
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- After 122 years of steelmaking and the employment of up to 165,000 people in 1957, the once mighty No. 2 U.S. Steelmaker, Bethlehem Steel, made its last cast in Bethlehem on November 18, 1995.
The Last Cast centers on the lives of the men and women who worked for Bethlehem Steel and built our country. The film in editing phase with a planned release of Spring 2016.
I understand in full how you guys must have felt,all steelworkers in the world have the same dedication.We are proud of our work,regardles of where we are..Greetings from a Swedish steelworker.
Worked on blast furnace for better part of 25 years. Watching the iron run is magical. Once you do it and see it and smell it...it becomes part of you. Only a relatively small group of people ever see iron run like water. It is remarkable
So true! The first time i walked out into the casthouse i thought "what fresh hell is this" but quickly it gets into you. i cannot for the life of me see myself doing annything else. Even going on a 2 week vacation you start counting the days till you see that iron running once more
You’re right, it becomes part of you. I’m from Cleveland….the other one across the pond….and in the early 70’s , with a fresh degree in Aeronautical Engineering !! I entered the design department of British Steel Corporation which is how I quickly recognised the skip bridge in the video. A year later I joined the only company in the U.K. designing Iron and Steel Plant and was involved in a small way in the 14 metre dia furnace at Redcar. For a time it was a fantastic job until my departmental head left to go to Pittsburg !! In my early 30’s I was finally able to follow my dream and became an airline pilot…and now long retired I’m captivated watching the demolition of the Redcar furnace, seeing the clay guns, the tap hole drills, the tuyeres , the bleeder valves…..like the passing of a lost love.
I once witnessed from the top of the furnace in Motherwell, hot metal flowing from the side of a torpedo car, with the engine going up and down so it’s wheels weren’t welded to the tracks, a scene like Dante’s inferno. Years later , driving to Glasgow airport, I looked at the familiar skyline and the Ravenscraig Iron and Steel plant, were totally gone.
Yes it gets to you.
Would have loved to have seen that. I'm a girl, but fascinated by the steel. I'd have paid to do a week on blast! The energy, just wow! Incredible! Xx
I was laid off spring of 82 from LCW U S Steel division. I know how much that hurt. I did a good job, model employee, safety first, yet there I was looking in from the outside. Joined the Army and never looked back. Seeing your plant just shut down for good, I can see how that would be like a death in the family.
It is just unbelievable there were men who knew every single part and piece of that entire factory
Our Federal Government not preventing Bethlehem Steel from closing, is a Historical National Disgrace. Bethlehem Steel played a major role in building the USA. One fine example is the Golden Gate Bridge. The Federal Government was obligated to give as much money as it took to update and modernize Bethlehem Steel.I still believe to this day that using Coke in the Smelting of Iron Ore and Scrap Cast Iron produces the Highest Quality Cast Iron. Bethlehem Steel always produced the Highest Quality Cast Iron and Steel.
I have extreme empathy for the Men and Women that dedicated their lives working for Bethlehem Steel.
I have always prayed and still to this day pray that Bethlehem Steel would open it doors again. I was always on the Bethlehem Steel Workers side when they would threaten to strike and always prayed that they would get what they wanted and absolutely deserved before having to strike.
I’ve never been connected in any way to the Steel Industry.
That's one of the factors in the plant closing. Too many union strikes...
I went thru this same feeling as Sharon Steel in western Pennsylvania, I was the same as the one fellow who could not look back and never went back. That was the same for me exactly, as I drove out the gate for the last time I could not look back or I would have cried I put 23 years of my life into that plant
Keep loving the government. They allowed the foreign steel to come to USA
Bethlehem Steel was one word for me. You never thought of one without the other. It described itself.
Same feelin when I came home after losing mom and dad after takin care ofboth...the quietness scares the hell outta me
I worked in a sawmill as a sawfiler for 33 years and had to stop at 59 because my feet and knees had taken all the concrete and stairs they could. It wasn t a job I planned to do nor was I proud to tell anyone that s what I did, but I wished I could have finished my career or at least stopped because I was ready not because I had to.
When I see any of the big ships of the Navy or the Golden Gate bridge , I think of you guys that made the steel.
At least I understand what s it s like to work with your hands and have a certain amount of pride for the product you turn out even if it is a personal thing. You all made this country strong. I m sorry the powers that be took it away and started buying from China and wherever else. It wasn t right but there are plenty of us that are proud of what the people of this country did and can do.
God bless all of ya. Thank you for making America great.
That plant should of never shut down. So sad.
after winning the war the steelmakers get repaid with a kick in the teeth thanks to the State Department building up Korean, Japanese, [ and later[ chinese competition.
I laugh at all the ppl who join the military to protect the government. This is what u get fk the government. They sold us out since the beginning we had to pay to rebuild Japan. Keep loving the government
We bailed out General Motors and Chrysler, the big banks too. Why not Bethlehem?
The plant was out dated. Too much money to dump in order to be “competitive” again.
End of a ERA
I worked at Sparrows Point, at one time the free world's largest steel plant. I guess I was lucky because I was laid off in 1987 thus avoiding the job rush when the plant finally closed. I chocked up when I saw the video of L furnace demolition .
I think I may have been on the last reline there...what an enormous furnace.
this is something im deadly afraid of. only been at the furnace for 3 years. but couldnt imagine ever having to leave
This trailer is a great short documentary on what people have to say about working & living in #SouthBethlehem including personal thoughts about the end of an era and a way of life when the steel mill closed. Many props to all that came before us and created such a unique way of life and a unique community called South Bethlehem. Thank you to all. There is a new community of worker and business owners creating a new life for themselves in South Bethlehem , in the shadow of Bethlehem Steel and I am part of a community that believes that South Bethlehem now again becoming a great place for opportunity, to build a business and create a new way of life..
I remember it was in steel workers magazine 1995
Is the film done yet ?
If any of you men see this much love from my family and I. I couldn’t imagine this happening to me I still try to be in a field that helps America with machining but I’m worried that will soon be gone. All the long hours and hard work. Much respect to all
Youngstown, Ohio and "Black Monday."
This is the sad part of how our political classes destroyed our great nation middle class.
its spring 2017...still no film?
How are they ever gonna make a movie , the greed is still far too grate , they can't even make steel anymore . Everyone always forgets about the young kids who were trained in a trade so they could go and follow their fathers into the steel , and graduated to go and find out the very same year the steel had their first layoff , and now you never get hired for the steel and also never got a good career as could get no apprenticeship from anyone else , good times , and I for one am so glad Ronny Regan and his crew of greedy pigs for taking away my every opportunity to have a successful life , thanks for the public assistance and disability life style you allowed me to have , poor people food just taste better anyway . Also no matter what some rich fat politicians here want to tell you , no Bethlehem never came back and never will , we are poor here except for the outsiders who moved in , this area has nothing now , nothing , don't believe all the fake façade of downtown Bethlehem , they learned that from Disney , the place is poor and run down , all you need to do is look behind all the fake crap . I ask now , why should there be any film , and who really cares anymore and who wants to watch old grainy footage of long gone dirty mills ? They don't need a film or the money it would bring in , they don't know how they could ever use the blood money right . It's all just blood money anymore .
Beautiful once best steel producer in Southern Africa the Rhodesian iron and steel company (RISCO) after independance name changed to Zimbabwe Iron & Steel Company ZISCO in Redcliff Zimbabwe is idle for past 20 years. Baboons live inside the meltdhop and blast furnace plant.. Sad very sad. Corruption and greed killed that steel plant. Even today idle rusting away... It was built by Voest Alpine of Austria.
This was the end of an era, an era when actual MEN worked in the steel mills. Fast forward 30-40 years and today u have a bunch of entitled sorry ass spoiled crybabies who think everything is "unsafe" and can't even come to work half the time making more money than they even need. It's not about feeding the family anymore it's about trying to do as little work as possible. Sad
Well leave it to big business again to screw everything up Magine that
Greedy Unions ruined Bethlehem Steel
In reply to CD318,greedy unions
In the US,UK and other countries, unions and their leaders have one helluva lot of blood on their hands,maybe,just maybe, Joe public will realise one day exactly how much the unions have destroyed people's lives,but I am not holding my breath,I am in North Wales,we have lost goodness knows how many jobs due to unions and their greedy bosses,who are on BIG saleries.
Best wishes to Bethlehem.
That's absolute horse shit. You're feeding people a false narrative. You're a rat bastard.
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Blast furnaces went idle with Trump at the helm...America doesn't need a peaceful creampuff, we need war to keep these dinosaurs running.