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Copyright title: Girls winding armatures (Westinghouse works)
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 [MI]: Girls winding armature
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.
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.
NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 28Apr1904; H45003.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Duration: 1:55 at 16 fps.
For other holdings on this title, contact M/B/RS reference staff.
Biograph catalog no. 2870; code name (for telegraphic orders) Resumpta.
NCN045658; Girls winding armatures (Westinghouse Works).
Filmed April 19, 1904, at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 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 Co. prod. records [MI].
Received: 3/9/93 from LC film lab; ref print; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
Received: 4/28/04; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
SUBJECTS
Armatures--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Women 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 (115 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
1 roll (115 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
CALL NUMBER
FEC 2540 (ref print)
LC 2034 (paper pos)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
westhpp 2034 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2034
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