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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920

Panoramic view aisle B, Westinghouse works / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.

SUMMARY
Filmed using a camera on an overhead crane, a traveling view of a large, long aisle is shown. Men are busy performing various tasks on machinery, probably generators. Other men are walking down the aisle in all directions, and carts carrying items come and go. The film ends when the camera reaches the end of the aisle where windows and a large opening are. Rail tracks coming in through the opening are visible.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 10May1904; H45597.

Original main title lacking.

Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.

Duration: 2:19 at 16 fps.

For other holdings on this title, contact M/B/RS reference staff.

Biograph catalog no. 2895; code name (for telegraphic orders) Resurtiese.

NCN045664; Panoramic view Aisle B, Westinghouse Works.

Filmed May 2, 1904, probably 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 photo catalog, v. 6 [MI]; Biograph Co. prod. records [MI].

Received: 3/9/93 from LC film lab; ref print; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

Received: 5/10/04; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.

SUBJECTS
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Industrial tours--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
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 (139 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
1 roll (139 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.

CALL NUMBER
FEC 2542 (ref print)
LC 2127 (paper pos)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
westhpp 2127 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2127

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