Panorama view street car motor room /
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
moving image
Industrial films. lcgft
Actualities (Motion pictures) lcgft
Silent films. lcgft
Short films. lcgft
Nonfiction films. lcgft
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company,
1904.
eng
A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by on rails; cranes lift machinery; and men perform their various duties, including hammering objects.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 2May1904; H45147.
Original main title lacking.
Erroneous segment title on LC's 16 mm. viewing print (FLA 5897) is Panoramic view streetcar motor room.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Duration: 2:35 at 15 fps.
Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with ten other titles.
Biograph production no. 2872.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2126) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Filmed April 21, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Digital files are on the American Memory exhibit: Inside an American factory. See LC online catalog record no. 2002564464.
This film, along with 20 other short films, was selected for the National Film Registry under the title Westinghouse works.
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.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Electric motor industry--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Panorama view street car motor room
Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2126