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Copyright title: Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse Co. works
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.
SUMMARY
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.
NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23July1904; H48412
Original main title lacking.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Duration: 2:42 at 15 fps.
For other holdings on this title, contact M/B/RS reference staff.
Biograph catalog no. 2907; code name (for telegraphic orders) Retacada.
NCN045661; Assembling and testing turbines, Westinghouse Works.
Filmed May 5, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Machine Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 [MI]; Biograph Co. prod. records [MI].
Received: 2/4/93 from LC film lab; ref print; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
Received: 6/22/92 from LC film lab; dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
Received: 7/23/04; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
SUBJECTS
Turbines--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Westinghouse Machine Company.
Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Manufactures--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Silent films.
Actuality--Short.
Industrial--Short.
RELATED NAMES
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (152 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (152 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg.
1 roll (152 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
CALL NUMBER
FEC 1624 (ref print)
FPE 7049 (dupe neg)
LC 1948 (paper pos)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
westhpp 1948 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.1948
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