01 May 1904 History, Factual 3 mins
A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.
Watch the official Testing a Rotary 1904 trailer in HD below.
Sorry, we can't find the movie trailer you're looking for.
Either a trailer for this movie has not been released yet, or it was removed following a request from the copyright holder.
United States 01 May 1904
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1904:
14 August 1904
People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.
02 February 1904
A criminal woman is brought in by the police to be photographed (a mug-shot, presumably), capturing her making faces or grimacing.
01 May 1904
On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches.
06 May 1904
A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
30 November 1904
During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.
25 April 1904
It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts the gondolas up in the air.
22 May 1904
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.
23 December 1904
A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father sends daughter out to beg.
21 June 1904
A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay.
15 April 1904
A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
30 April 1904
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.
01 January 1904
1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
Have you watched Testing a Rotary yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1904 American Mutoscope & Biograph, Westinghouse Electric Company.