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Date(s) - October 20, 2017
7:30 PM
The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra is presenting an “all-American program” at the Lower Cambria Ironworks Machine shop, 102 Iron Street!
During this free concert, film footage that JAHA obtained of the Bethlehem mills in Johnstown will be shown. The footage was shot just two weeks before two divisions closed forever in 1992 thanks to Richard Burkert, president of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association. He understood the need to document this crucial part of Johnstown’s history, and obtained a grant from the National Park Service’s Industrial Heritage Project. Burkert hired Charles Guggenheim, the filmmaker who had directed the Johnstown Flood Museum’s Academy Award-winning documentary, to shoot the 70mm film.
Today portions of the footage are used in the Heritage Discovery Center’s film “The Mystery of Steel,” which also tells the story of the technical innovations in steelmaking that were developed in Johnstown in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Magic Lantern, the Pittsburgh-based company that produced “The Mystery of Steel,” has edited the footage for this occasion.