Film, Video Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works Westinghouse works. / Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1
About this Item
- 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
- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/96522217
- Additional Metadata Formats
- MARCXML Record
- MODS Record
- Dublin Core Record
Part of
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 (39)
- Selections from the National Film Registry (71)
- America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1915 (158)
- National Screening Room (557)
- Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (1,892)
- Library of Congress Online Catalog (1,263,482)
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