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Steam hammer, Westinghouse works / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Library of Congress Black & White Film Collection Available online
Library of Congress Black & White Film Collection- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Factories.
- Electric industry workers.
- Power hammers.
- Manufacturing processes.
- Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
- Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Power hammers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Genre:
- Streaming video.
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video)
- Other Title:
- Variant title: Westinghouse works. Steam hammer, Westinghouse works
- Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
- 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:
- From what appears to be a furnace, a large, glowing block is lifted with the help of a crane over to a table by a group of men. A hammer comes from above and pounds down on the block repeatedly as the men turn the block several times so that it will acquire a certain shape.
- Credits:
- Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
- Notes:
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 13May1904; H45953.
- The first edition of Early motion pictures, 1967, p. 164, incorrectly lists the copyright registration number as H45053.
- Original main title lacking.
- Duration: 3:29 at 15 fps.
- Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with ten other titles.
- 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.
- Biograph production no. 2899.
- Paper print shelf number (LC 2206) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- Filmed May 4, 1904, 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.
- 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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