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Title
Girls winding armatures
Other Title
Westinghouse works.
Girls winding armatures (Westinghouse works)
Girls winding armature
Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1
Summary
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 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.
Subject Headings
-  Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
-  Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
-  Armatures--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
-  Electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
-  Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
Genre
Industrial films
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Silent films
Short films
Nonfiction films
Notes
-  H45003 U.S. Copyright Office
-  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 28Apr1904; H45003.
-  Original main title lacking.
-  Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
-  Duration: 1:55 at 16 fps.
-  Viewing print (16 mm.) on reel with eight other titles.
-  Biograph production no. 2870.
-  Paper print shelf number (LC 2034) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
-  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
-  Filmed April 19, 1904, at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
-  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 viewing print renumbered: FEC 2540 to FYA 1217.
Medium
viewing print 1 film reel (45 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (115 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (45 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 115 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 115 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
FLA 5896 (viewing print)
FYA 1217 (viewing print)
FRA 2942 (dupe neg pic)
Box 0050A (paper pos)
Box 5136D (paper pos, copy 2)
Repository
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2034
Library of Congress Control Number
96522180
Online Format
image
video
LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/96522180
Additional Metadata Formats
MARCXML Record
MODS Record
Dublin Core Record

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Bitzer, G. W., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Girls Winding Armatures. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/96522180/.

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Bitzer, G. W., American Mutoscope And Biograph Company & Paper Print Collection. (1904) Girls Winding Armatures. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96522180/.

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Bitzer, G. W., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Girls Winding Armatures. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96522180/>.

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