Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works

About

Silent short

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.

Names: G.W. "Billy" Bitzer, 1872-1944, camera. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published: United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.

Duration: 2:09 at 15 fps.

Biograph production no. 2888.

Paper print shelf number (LC 1984) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.

Filmed April 26, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPF 2332 to FZA 2322.

Archive

Wikimedia Commons, in Wikimedia Commons

Licence or status

Public domain, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

Rights statement

Public domain

Credit

Billy Bitzer

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