Assembling a Generator, Westinghouse Works
(1904) United States of America
B&W : [?] 183 or 186? feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 10 May 1904 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H45598]. Released May 1904. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The production was shot on 2 May 1904. The location is thought to have been the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Biograph production number 2896.
Documentary.
Synopsis: Factory workers use heavy equipment to assemble a very large electrical generator.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive], and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Electrical generators - Factories - USA: Pennsylvania: East Pittsburgh
Listing updated: 1 September 2009.
References: Sloan-Loud p. 152 : Website-AFI; Website-LoC.
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