Panorama View Street Car Motor Room

SUMMARY
A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by on rails; cranes lift machinery; and men perform their various duties, including hammering objects.

OTHER TITLES
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 [MI] and Biograph Co. prod. records [MI]: Panorama motor room, Westinghouse works

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

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 2May1904; H45147.

Original main title lacking.

Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.

Filmed April 21, 1904, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Received: 5/2/04; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.

SUBJECTS
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Industrial tours--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Electric railway motors.
Cable cars (Streetcars)--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh.
Electric motor industry--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)

DIGITAL ID
westhpp 2126 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2126

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Library
• Congress
• Edison
• Pittsburgh
• Westinghouse
• Manufacturing
• Industry
• Silent
• Short
• Streetcar
• Train