INDUSTRIAL FILM RUHR on Tour 23

FILM TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE RUHR AREA

On Thursday, March 23, 2023, the "INDUSTRIEFILM RUHR" will go on tour for the first time!

Far beyond the borders of the region, IndustrieFilm Ruhr is a trademark for a technically well-founded presentation of historical industrial films that are only very rarely seen by a broader audience. IndustrieFilm Ruhr can now look back on 26 successful years – with 14 events and over 180 films presented to date. A record that is unparalleled nationwide.

In autumn 2022, IndustrieFilm Ruhr was able to take place again in the historical cinema ambience of the Essen film studio Glückauf, most recently on the topic "Industrial Film and Industrial Culture". This gave rise to the idea of ​​bringing the industrial film to the locations of the Route of Industrial Culture. The premiere for the INDUSTRIEFILM RUHR on Tour will now take place on Thursday, March 23, 2023 in the roller bearing cinema of the LVR Industrial Museum in Oberhausen. Followed by another event at the DASA exhibition in Dortmund on Wednesday 3rd May 2023.

Both events will be moderated by Paul Hofmann, Kinemathek in the Ruhr area.

The INDUSTRIEFILM RUHR team looks forward to seeing you!

PROGRAM

Thursday, 23th of March 2023
18-20
LVR Industrial Museum in Oberhausen

HOAG factory newsreel (April–December 1954)

Hüttenwerke Oberhausen AG, Oberhausen
13 mins, black and white, 1954
thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives, Duisburg

laboratory blast furnace

Mannesmann Research Institute GmbH, Duisburg
24 mins, color, 1982
Salzgitter AG Corporate Archives/Mannesmann Archives,
Mülheim an der Ruhr

North Duisburg Landscape Park [!].
The closed Meiderich ironworks

Planning community landscape park Duisburg-Nord
State development company of North Rhine-Westphalia GmbH
Thyssen Disposal Technology GmbH
19 mins, color, 1990
thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives, Duisburg

Layers under the haze

City of Oberhausen
14 minutes, color, 1959/60
LVR Industrial Museum, Oberhausen

Admission €7 / reduced €6
Ticket reservation at 0208/85 97 877
from 17:30 p.m. to 20:15 p.m. (not Wed, Sat)

The Movies on Thursday March 23, 2023

Hüttenwerk Oberhausen AG

HOAG factory newsreel

In the 1950s, the motto on the works premises of Hüttenwerk Oberhausen AG was “move on!”. Because the company's own press office shot so-called factory newsreels, which were shown to the workforce every three months.
SALZGITTER AG GROUP ARCHIVE/MANNESMANN ARCHIVE

LABORATORY BLAST FURNACE

In 1982 a unique experiment took place in the Mannesmann smelting works in Duisburg-Huckingen: the freezing of a blast furnace. – The film is a detailed documentation of this large-scale test. It offers unusual interior views of the blast furnace and the blast furnace process.
THYSSENKRUPP CORPORATE ARCHIVES, DUISBURG

THE DUISBURG NORTH LANDSCAPE PARK [!]

The short film "Landscape Park Duisburg North [!]. The closed Meidericher Eisenhütte" from 1990 documents the creation of the landscape park on the site of the former Meidericher Hütte.
City of Oberhausen

Layers under the haze

The cinematic portrait of the city of Oberhausen shows everyday life in the West German industrial city in a way that was completely unusual at the time and unembellished. With the film, a year after its creation, the VI. West German Short Film Festival opened in Oberhausen.

 

PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 3, 2023
18 am - 20 pm
DASA world of work exhibition

people in the workplace

Steel making in the Siemens-Martin factory
30 mins, color, 1982
Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAU)/
G. Krankenhagen

Mines are converting

Association of the German hard coal mining industry, Essen
10 mins, color, 1972
montan.dok/Mining Archive Bochum

A wise man builds ahead

Mining trade association, Bochum district administration
17 mins, black and white, 1966
sv:dok, documentation and research center
the social security agency with montan.dok/
Mining Archive Bochum

The electric bus from MAN

MAN Truck & Bus SE, Munich
10 mins, color, 1984
Westphalian Economic Archives Foundation, Dortmund

 

Eintritt frei

The Movies on Wednesday May 3, 2023

Steel making in the Siemens-Martin factory

people in the workplace

The film shows work on a Siemens-Martin furnace in a Hoesch AG steelworks in Dortmund. The work in a Siemens-Martin plant is shown primarily from the perspective of the steel workers, who describe their work processes and the associated problems and dangers.

Association of the German hard coal mining industry

Mines are converting

An explosion, a headframe collapses spectacularly in a huge cloud of dust. But: "The closure of collieries is not the end of mining", was the optimistic message of this cinematic summary of the rationalization measures in the Ruhr mining industry since the beginning of the so-called coal crisis in 1972.
Mining trade association

A wise man builds ahead

Mining underground has long been particularly dangerous. The avoidance of accidents, for example when stones or coal fell, was therefore a central topic of safety advertising in mining. The medium of film has been used since the 1930s.
MAN Truck & Bus SE, Munich

The electric bus from MAN

"MAN's electric bus serves people without polluting the environment." The narrator for the film proudly announces the new innovation from Varta Batterie AG from Hagen, accompanied by disco music typical of the time.

The organizers:

DASA world of work exhibition | Cinematheque in the Ruhr area | LVR Industrial Museum | Mining History Documentation Center/Mining Archive Bochum | Regional association Ruhr | Salzgitter AG Corporate Archives Mannesmann Archives | Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation | sv:dok, documentation and research center of the social security institutions | thyssenkrupp Corporate Archives

 

The venues:

Hansastrasse 20
46049 Oberhausen
Telephone 0208 / 8579-877

Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25
44149 Dortmund (Germany)
Telephone 0231 / 9071-2670