MCTV Know Your Casting Processes
Need to brush up on the difference between lost foam and investment casting? Go to www.
metalcastingtv.com to watch a recorded webinar, “Overview of Metalcasting Processes,” which goes over various casting methods.
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Metalcasting in the Movies
Industrial processes show up
often in the entertainment industry, and metalcasting is no exception. Peter Jackson provides some
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good examples in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and most recently in the second installment of “The Hobbit—The Desolation of Smaug.” [Warning: spoilers] It includes a foundry in highly animated action, with dragon-lit forges melting untold tons of gold to produce a gigantic cast statue of a dwarf. As it is being poured, exiled king Thorin Oakenshield rides a wheelbarrow down a rushing canal of molten metal (at 1,948 F or more), proving you can’t make that believable no matter how moody you look while doing it. What are your favorite examples of
metalcasting in the movies? —Denise Kapel, Senior Editor,
dkapel@afsinc.org
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