Fire and Steel
odd: label: General
content: HSFA 1990.1.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
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content: National Geographic Explorer videos
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content: 1 Videocassette (17 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Videocassettes
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content: Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series by Ann Derry explores the roll of steel drums in Trinidadian life. The footage shows making of steel drums from old oil barrels, a tuner "tuning" a drum, and painting of drums. Highlighted is a yearly steel festival in which a well-known steel orchestra, the Desperados from Lavantio, compete and win.