Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been treated to footage of factory panoramas, women winding armatures and turbines being assembled. These industrial films were produced for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.
Watch the official Westinghouse Works 1904 trailer in HD below.
United States 01 May 1904
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16 January 1904
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A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side.
14 August 1904
People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.
11 February 1904
A view of the opening ceromonies for New York's Williamsburg Bridge.
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Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
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A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
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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.
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.
15 January 1904
Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.
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