Panorama view street car motor room
Westinghouse works
Panorama view street car motor room
Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
Panorama motor room, Westinghouse works
Panoramic view streetcar motor room
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.
xxu
monographic
United States
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
1904
19040421
eng
1 film reel (60 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. viewing print.
1 film reel of 1 (145 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
1 film reel (ca. 60 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic.
1 film reel of 1 (145 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg pic.
1 roll (ca. 145 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
1 roll (ca. 145 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos (copy 2)
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.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 2May1904; H45147.
Original main title lacking. DLC
Erroneous segment title on LC's 16 mm. viewing print (FLA 5897) is Panoramic view streetcar motor room. DLC
Duration: 2:35 at 15 fps.
Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with ten other titles. DLC
Biograph production no. 2872.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2126) 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 21, 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.
n-us-pa
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
FLA 5897 (viewing print)
FEC 2547 (viewing print)
FRA 2998 (dupe neg pic)
FZA 2320 (dupe neg pic)
Box 0941C (paper pos)
Box 5671B (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.2126
Panorama view street car motor room
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Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
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