This 1971 film, Sheffield: City on the Move, made by the City Council covers everything from steelmaking and silversmithing, the Pennines and the postwar rebuilding, conservation and municipal sports facilities. The footage is terrific, even if the pace is glacial. In a large part it's a celebration of the city's industrial traditions (I lost count of the number of times 'industry' was mentioned), with shots of smelting, sweet making and the largest snuff-makers in the country.
Still, the section on the countryside allows the director to select some stirringly romantic music and focus on some young women for a change. This gets worse in the nightlife section, where a sequence of shots of young women in various plunging necklines or tiny skirts dancing, intercut with some seedy-looking neon signs (Fiesta, anyone?), is a slightly uncomfortable reminder of those attitudes of the era being exhumed so luridly in the news.
Near the end are some great shots of Castle Market, here bustling and colourful now sad and quiet. The film as a whole exudes a kind of quiet confidence in the city - no Telly Savalas voice-overs or Carry On star cameos here to sell the city, it's good old fashioned Yorkshire industry they're promoting.