Film opens with view from a high point of the city of Rome, Italy. St. Peter's Basilica is seen in the background. Camera focuses on a group of men crowded together in a fenced area atop a construction project. Closer view reveals Benito Mussolini wielding a pick alongside other workers. After a moment, he puts the pick down and goes to the end of the area where he stands on something to make him visible above the others, and gives a fascist salute. View of St. Peter's from the elevated work site. Closeup of ordinary workers clearing rubble from the construction site. Film goes black momentarily and then shows the crowded work site seen in the earlier footage. Mussolini is handed the pick and uses it for a longer time than previously shown. He and others leave the work site. More views of St. Peter's Basilica. Views of trams and light traffic on a street below. More views of apartment houses and St. Peter's. Film interrupted and then shows closeup of men working on the construction site.
Smoke comes out of a war material factory in Germany where large gun and artillery barrels are manufactured during rearmament of Germany before World War 2. Smoke from chimneys in the factory. View elsewhere of miners digging for iron ore in mines and raw material for steel being mined with pneumatic hammers. Men work inside the steel mill processing raw iron ore. Molten metal runs through ditches dug by workers. Smelting operations shown. Blast furnaces process molten metal. Metal is formed and pressed. Close ups of cams, pistons, wheels, shafts, rods, pulleys, and gears of armament manufacturing operations. Large steel gun barrel is formed, pressed, cut, and finished in war production factory.
Hot molten steel in a steel mill in Germany. Hot steel rods in process at the factory. Men work outside welding steel girders and beams to create a large steel frame or building structure. Men stand on the skeletons of buildings. Manufacture and launch of a giant German ship involving steel. Various ships and scaffolding at the shipyard. Tall steel girder bridges in Germany are shown. Various views of the Tagblatt-Turm (Tagblatt Tower) building in Stuttgart Germany just a few years after its completion -- an example of early modernism and in stark contrast to other older buildings in the area. A high rise building seen behind an old stone gate structure in Germany. Buildings and houses in the area.
Children in a classroom write with steel pens in Germany. Teacher writes on a black board. Montage scene of objects made with steel including pens, paper clips, nails, utensils, nuts, bolts, screws, buckets, tools, lamp, ashtrays, knives, model planes, toys and pots displayed. A cobbler pounds nails on bottom of a boot. Close up of a man using a metal file. A woman uses a hot iron on an ironing board to iron clothes. A woman seated and using a sewing machine. Various industrial machines shown with inner cogs, wheels, rods, pistons, and parts made from steel.
A wheel cart on a farm in Germany. A child and a man adjust the wheel. Harvesting of wheat in the farm by farmers. Men work in the farm to harvest the grain. Views of traditional farm hand tools like scythes and industrial farm machinery used to plant and harvest on farms. A house in the farm. Men load grain with pitchforks. A threshing machine in operation. Rapid montage scenes of various transportation machines made with steel in operation, including biplane aircraft, ships at sea, closeup of tire of car running at speed, and frame and tires of bicycles being pedaled, and of Formula 1 (F1) automobiles in a race car competition, railroad trains in a city cross paths on tracks of different heights, close up view of car tire running at high speed, a train races by, a car on a city street. Clip ends with scene of traditional blacksmith worker wearing heavy apron and pounding steel with hammer.
Men stand near the original grave of famous Filipino writer and patriot Dr. Jose Rizal in Paco Cemetery (San Marcelino and Gen. Luna Street Manila Philippines), Manila, Philippines. An elderly man (possibly Paciano Rizal, brother of Dr. Jose Rizal) points to the grave. Fishing boats dock in the harbor. Houses in the background. Men stand on a boat.
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