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Film, VideoPanorama view street car motor room
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Panorama motor room, Westinghouse works | Panoramic view streetcar motor room | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Panorama motor room, Westinghouse works 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.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, Video[Theater commercial--electric refrigerators]. Buy an electric refrigerator
Buy an electric refrigerator Largely graphic commercial for electric refrigerators in general and a refrigerator show, presumably in Pittsburgh, in particular.- Contributor: Afi/Kalinowski (Eugene) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1926-01-01
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Film, VideoAssembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse Co. works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Variant title: Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse works 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.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoPanorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse Co. works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Variant title: Panorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Panorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse works A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment are shown traveling on rails down the aisles. There are also men walking in the aisles.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoTesting a rotary, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, Video[Lancaster, Pa., high school] "Shows boys and girls going out the door and down the steps of a high school building in Lancaster, Pa. The boys come out first, led by a man, probably a teacher, holding a young boy's hand. The boys wear suits, and a few carry books or instrument cases. The girls, wearing long dresses and broad-brimmed hats, follow the boys. The last person to...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Film, Video[Charles E. Hughes speaking during campaign, Duquesne, Pa., 1916]
Universal animated weekly Presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes campaigns in Pittsburgh vicinity on Sept. 27, 1916. Hughes was on a strenuous tour in an attempt to knit together various Republican factions. In Pittsburgh area he was joined by Republican notables, some of whom had been at odds with him: Senator Boies Penrose, Philander Knox, William Flinn. Hughes spoke in opposition to the eight-hour day and was silent...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Universal Film Manufacturing Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1916
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Film, VideoWestinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6: Westinghouse Air-Brake Company | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse Air-Brake Company | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid into molds on the floor. A conveyor belt delivers items which are then taken off the belt by a man. Men on the other side of the screen appear to be lifting items out of...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoAssembling a generator, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces. A crane carries a large piece of the generator over to the rest of the machine, and the men guide it down to assemble it. The crane brings two other pieces to the machine and lays them down where they belong.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoCoil winding machines, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the work of the women.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoAll-American news. [1945-07, no. 2]
Inventory title: All American news 7 | Inventory title: All American news VII All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include a segment about Denver boys on a staycation, war reporting from Lemuel Graves, and a...- Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
- Date: 1945
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Film, VideoWelding the big ring
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Welding big ring | Variant title: Westinghouse works | Welding big ring | Westinghouse works A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer the hot area on the ring into shape while the remaining men hold the ring. They put the ring into the fire again, take it out, and take it over to a machine...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoGirls winding armatures
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Copyright title: Girls winding armatures (Westinghouse works) | Title in Biograph photo catalog: Girls winding armature | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Girls winding armatures (Westinghouse works) | Girls winding armature | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 Numerous women sit in rows at machines where they appear to be winding some type of wire and tooling it onto machines. Two young men push spools of this wire down the aisle. Supervisors, male and female, walk down the aisle and observe the women's work, stopping for a while at one woman's station.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoDelivering mail from sub-station The subjects seen by the camera are a portion of a large building with columns in front that indicates it is a government building and three small shuttle streetcars across the street from the camera position. As the film progresses, the shuttle cars leave. Twice during the film a larger streetcar passes in front of the camera position.- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoWestinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. works (casting scene)
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Westinghouse Air Brake Co. casting machine | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse Air Brake Co. casting machine | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 What appear to be molds pass by some men on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up with tongs the parts that have been dumped onto the ground and put them on a pile in the foreground.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoTaping coils, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils. Male supervisors walk down the aisles, observing the women's work.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoThe morning alarm
Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Harrisburg fire run "Shows chief in his buggy, followed by fire engines, hose carts, hook and ladder, insurance patrol and a chemical engine. Horses snorting, plunging and galloping at full speed, directly toward the screen. The finiest fire engine scene ever taken"--Edison films catalog no. 105.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1896
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Film, VideoMining operations, Pennsylvania coal fields
Mining operations, Pennsylvania fields "The film opens on an area covered with snow where the following operations are visible: track laying, and dirt moving by explosion, grader, steam shovel, and steam engine"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Jamison, William L.
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoHarold K. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Diego, California, 2016 June 28 Harold "Hal" K. Brown talks about his activist work in obtaining housing and voting rights for San Diego's African American communities. He also discusses his time working in Apartheid-era Lesotho with the Peace Corps, his tenure as chairman of San Diego's CORE branch, and his thoughts on contemporary activism and racial and economic inequality.- Contributor: Brown, Harold K. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoNew Black Diamond Express
Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Black Diamond Express "This picture was taken at one of the curves on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, along the beautiful Susquehanna River. The train is seen rapidly approaching in the distance, clearly outlined against the grey mountains. Smoke can be seen pouring in volumes from the stack of the locomotive, and as the train approaches closely, she sounds a whistle, warning some section men, who are working...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1900
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Film, VideoCoil winding section E, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products on the table in front of them. Various supervisory staff, male and female, walk through the aisles, checking the work of the women.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoSteam whistle, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoPanoramic view aisle B., Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 Filmed using a camera on an overhead crane, a traveling view of a large, long aisle is shown. Men are busy performing various tasks on machinery, probably generators. Other men are walking down the aisle in all directions, and carts carrying items come and go. The film ends when the camera reaches the end of the aisle where windows and a large opening are....- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoTapping a furnace, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1 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.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoSteam hammer, Westinghouse works
Variant title: Westinghouse works | Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 | Westinghouse works | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 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.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904