documentary pitch: steel city
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Documentary PitchTom, Josh, Phil and Nathan
Idea One: Steel City (working title) Documentary that looks at the steel
industry, what brought it's decline, and how that's affected the community.
Forgemasters, founded in 1805, is the sole remaining independent steel works in the world.
Park hill flats Forgemasters cut 100 jobs
Idea One: Steel City (working title)
Complacency with existing equipment, plants operating under capacity (low efficiency), poor quality assets, outdated technology, government price controls, higher coal and oil costs, lack of funds for capital improvement, and increasing world market
Idea One: Steel City (working title) Interview with someone close to the
Forgemasters managing team about what is going on with the steel industry
Footage of steel factory in production interviews with Kelham Island
museum curator, park hill resident. locations: park hill, kelham island
museum , forgemasters steel factory.