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Tapping a furnace, Westinghouse works / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foundry workers.
- Foundries.
- Manufacturing processes.
- Pennsylvania--Trafford.
- Westinghouse Foundries.
- Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--Trafford.
- Foundries--Pennsylvania--Trafford.
- Foundry workers--Pennsylvania--Trafford.
- Genre:
- Streaming video.
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video)
- Other Title:
- Variant title: Westinghouse works. Tapping a furnace, Westinghouse works
- Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1
- Selections from the National Film Registry.
- Place of Publication:
- United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- A large bucket is lowered into a pit by male workers using machinery. Molten material from a furnace is poured into the bucket using a slide. The bucket, which has flames coming from inside, is lifted up from the pit by a crane.
- Credits:
- Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
- Notes:
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23July1904; H48416.
- Original main title lacking.
- Duration: 3:20 (part 1) and 1:52 (part 2) at 14 fps.
- Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with eight other titles.
- Biograph production no. 2919.
- Paper print shelf number (LC 2213) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
- Filmed May 16, 1904, at the Westinghouse foundries in Trafford City, Pennsylvania, most likely part of the Westinghouse Machine Co.
- 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.
- Publications about:
- Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
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