Film, Video Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works Westinghouse works. / Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1

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Title
Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works
Other Title
Westinghouse works.
Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1
Summary
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 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
-  Electric coils--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
-  Women electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
-  Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh
Genre
Industrial films
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Silent films
Short films
Nonfiction films
Notes
-  H45401 U.S. Copyright Office
-  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 6May1904; H45401.
-  Original main title lacking.
-  Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
-  Duration: 2:09 at 15 fps.
-  Viewing copy (16 mm.) on reel with eight other titles.
-  Biograph production no. 2888.
-  Paper print shelf number (LC 1984) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
-  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
-  Filmed April 26, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, 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: FPF 2332 to FZA 2322.
Medium
1 film reel (41 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. viewing print.
1 film reel of 1 (129 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 40 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic.
1 film reel of 1 (129 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg pic.
1 roll of 1 (ca. 130 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
1 roll of 1(ca. 130 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos (copy 2)
Call Number/Physical Location
FLA 5896 (viewing print)
FEC 2544 (viewing print)
FRA 2944 (dupe neg pic)
FZA 2322 (dupe neg pic)
Box 0170C (paper pos)
Box 5185A (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.1984
Library of Congress Control Number
96522217
Online Format
image
video
Description
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.
LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/96522217
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MARCXML Record
MODS Record
Dublin Core Record

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Bitzer, G. W., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96522217/. (Accessed June 27, 2017.)

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Bitzer, G. W., American Mutoscope And Biograph Company & Paper Print Collection. (1904) Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96522217/.

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Bitzer, G. W., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/96522217/>.