Coil winding section E, Westinghouse works
Westinghouse works
Coil winding section E, Westinghouse works
Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel
Bitzer, G. W.,
1872-1944
camera
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
moving image
motion picture
Industrial films.
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Silent films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
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monographic
United States
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
1904
19040426
eng
viewing print 1 film reel (51 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (128 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (51 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (128 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 130 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 130 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products on the table in front of them. Various supervisory staff, male and female, walk through the aisles, checking the work of the women.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 6May1904; H45402.
Original main title lacking. DLC
Duration: 2:25 at 14 fps.
Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with eight other titles. DLC
Viewing print and dupe neg pic (35 mm.) include a pullback and 1 ft. of black; this printing error has been edited out in production of a digital file. DLC
Biograph production no. 2889.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1985) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. DLC
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. DLC
Digital files are on the American Memory exhibit: Inside an American factory. See LC online catalog record no. 2002564464.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985, p. 358; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 [MI]; Biograph Co. prod. records [MI]; the Internet movie database WWW site, viewed 10-23-2012; M/B/RS preliminary catalog card.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Filmed April 26, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
This film, along with 20 other short films, was selected for the National Film Registry under the title Westinghouse works.
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Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Manufacturing processes
Pennsylvania
East Pittsburgh
Electric coils
Pennsylvania
East Pittsburgh
Women electric industry workers
Pennsylvania
East Pittsburgh
Factories
Pennsylvania
East Pittsburgh
FLA 5896 (viewing print)
FEC 1521 (viewing print)
FRA 2945 (dupe neg pic)
FZA 2323 (dupe neg pic)
Box 0108A (paper pos)
Box 5262A (paper pos, copy 2)
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.1985
Coil winding section E, Westinghouse works
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Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1
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