The Big Melt (2013)

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The Big Melt is a documentary film about the Sheffield steel industry directed by Jarvis Cocker and Martin Wallace. It combines archive footage with a live soundtrack. The film was commissioned by BBC Storyville and BBC North, in association with the BFI.

Production

The film was commissioned by BBC Storyville and BBC North in association with the BFI, using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

The Big Melt followed From the Sea to the Land Beyond, a similar commission by Doc/Fest in 2012.

It was produced by Heather Croall and Mark Atkin and Martin Rosenbaum and directed by Jarvis Cocker and Martin Wallace for the 20th annual Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2013, to celebrate the centenary of the steel industry. The film was made using footage from the BFI National Archive.

Cocker was initially reluctant to be involved because he felt that Sheffield's Steel City image was a cliché. He agreed to take part after seeing footage of a boy putting two fingers up to the camera in the early 1900s, which reminded him of Kes, the film by Ken Loach.

The Big Melt was billed as "a brand new kind of heavy metal music", and as "a music and film journey into the soul of a nation, bringing to life the ghosts of our past, taking us into the belly of the furnaces and showing how our souls have been stamped from the mighty presses of our industrial heritage".

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