Hot Stuff (1937)

Story teaching us about fireplaces through the ages and showing experiments using heat on different substances. Title reads: HOT STUFF. Various shots illustrate different ideas of warmth a glamorous woman in a white fur coat and a man toasting his feet before an open fire. Some illustrations show early fires in homes and the invention of chimneys and smoke vents, called Louvers. Various shots of louvers at Staples Inn, London. Several experiments show the effect of heat on different metals and substances, including applying heat to a sulphurous mixture, making Pharaoh s Snakes rise up from the laboratory bench weird A demonstration of an electric furnace shows cast iron being melted. A jokey final shot of an electric oven, where footage of a glamour girl is superimposed to look like she is inside it. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.