Film, Video Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. works (moulding scene) Variant title: Westinghouse works / Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Westinghouse Co. no. 3, moulding machine / Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2 / Westinghouse works / Westinghouse Co. no. 3, moulding machine / Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
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Title
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. works (moulding scene)
Other Title
- Variant title: Westinghouse works
- Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 and Biograph Co. prod. records: Westinghouse Co. no. 3, moulding machine
- Variant title from MAVIS: Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
- Westinghouse works
- Westinghouse Co. no. 3, moulding machine
- Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 2
Summary
- Men working in teams carry buckets of molten material and pour the material into what appear to be molds lined up on the ground.
Names
- Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.
Headings
- - Westinghouse Air Brake Company
- - Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--Wilmerding
- - Westinghouse air-brake
- - Molding (Founding)--Pennsylvania--Wilmerding
- - Foundry workers--Pennsylvania--Wilmerding
- - Factories--Pennsylvania--Wilmerding
Genre
- Industrial films
- Actualities (Motion pictures)
- Silent films
- Short films
- Nonfiction films
Notes
- - H48414 U.S. Copyright Office
- - Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23July1904; H48413.
- - Original main title lacking.
- - Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
- - Duration: 3:32 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. 2914.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 2236) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- - Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
- - The Biograph Co. prod. records indicate that the film was shot May 10, 1904, at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Comparison of this film with Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. works (casting scene), would suggest, however, that this film was filmed at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
- - Probably filmed on May 10, 1904, at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- - 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.
- - Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
- - 35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 7082 to FZA 2311.
Medium
- 1 film reel (80 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. viewing print.
- 1 film reel of 1 (200 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
- 1 film reel of 1 (80 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic.
- 1 film reel of 1 (200 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg pic.
- 1 roll of 1 (ca. 200 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
- 1 roll of 1 (ca. 200 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos (copy 2)
Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 5897 (viewing print)
- FEC 1631 (viewing print)
- FRA 2939 (dupe neg pic)
- FZA 2311 (dupe neg pic)
- Box 0736C (paper pos)
- Box 5703D (paper pos, copy 2)
Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 96521979
Online Format
- image
- video
LCCN Permalink
Additional Metadata Formats
Part of
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 (39)
- Selections from the National Film Registry (72)
- America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1915 (158)
- Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (927)
- National Screening Room (1,168)
- Library of Congress Online Catalog (1,592,392)