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| Module code and title: | T102, Living with technology: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | T102; 10 |
| First transmission date: | 17-06-1989 |
| Published: | 1989 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Colin Robinson |
| Contributors: | Bill Mayon-White; John Naughton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Copper; London metal exchange; Recycling; Refineries, copper; Scrap metals |
| Footage description: | Footage - Presenter speaking. Various items made from copper. Traders on the London Metal Exchange, 1979 (0'29"-3'10") - Two men walking amongst piles of scrap metal. JCB dumping scrap metal into a container. Contents being tipped into copper blast furnace. Slag running off. Converter: air being blown through liquid metal (3'11"-5'09") - Two men putting tree trunk into furnace. Liquid metal pouring out. Cast shapes called anodes being put into refinery tanks. Electrolytically refined copper being removed from refinery (5'10-6'56") - Scrap metal yard. Horse being tacked up to pull cart. 'Totters' collecting scrap meatl items from houses. Totter carrying copper hot water cylinder. Totter collecting various metal items (6'57"-9'12") - Man carrying copper cylinder into Wisby Metals scrap business. Copper cylinder being weighed and crushed. Man sorting through scrap metal. People bringing metal items to Wisby Metals. Woman paying customer for scrap metal (9'13"-12'46"). Lorry driving up to Cobury Ltd scrap metal yard. Interior of Cobury Ltd. Men loading and sorting scrap metal. Man sorting metal into different containers. Two men sorting through small scrap items (12'47"-17'07") - Traders at London Metal Exchange. Two dealers talking at Wisby Metals scrap yard. Totters driving horse and cart down road. Interior of Cobury Ltd. Fork lift truck tipping lathe turnings and drillings into a pile. Load of baled copper being loaded onto a lorry. Lorry leaving Cobury Ltd. (17'08-21'39") - Totters delivering collected scrap metal to Wisby Metals. Various shots of copper blast furnace interspersed with Totters' delivery (21'40"-23'43"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU6128 |
| Production number: | FOUT323L |
| Videofinder number: | 3036 |
| Available to public: | no |
