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Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse Co. works / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Factories.
- Electric industry workers.
- Turbines.
- Manufacturing processes.
- Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Westinghouse Machine Company.
- Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
- Turbines--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. Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse Co. works
- Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
- Variant title: Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse works
- 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 turbine is shown operating. Two men walk up to it, check the running of various parts on it, and write their findings down on paper. A third man is seen walking through a few times, once stopping to look at one of the men's writings.
- Credits:
- Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
- Notes:
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23July1904; H48412.
- Original main title lacking.
- Duration: 2:42 at 15 fps.
- Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with ten other titles.
- Biograph production no. 2907.
- Paper print shelf number (LC 1948) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- Filmed May 5, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Machine 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.
- 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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