| GEC FACTORY INTERIORS Inside General Electric Company c. 1910s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6244 |
| Catalog #: | 369000 | |
| Clip Number: | 369000-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 396 B | |
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| Location: | Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1910 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Electric Motors | |
| Description: | GEC FACTORY INTERIORS Good footage of factory workers at General Electric Company. Great raw footage of General Electric Company interiors it seems that a few guys in suits are being shown around by management Great Britain Opens w/ scenes in foundry. White hot molten steel pouring into vat. 01:05:12 Vat tilting to pour out the molten metal, while workers poke long sticks into it. Then Dark shot of same: only glowing liquid is visible. 01:05:55 Great tracking shot moving over factory floor; looking down at workers engaged in various tasks; parts of large motors stacked all over; workers, supervisors etc walking through the plant. MS worker walking on big rotating cylinder as management types in suits watch. 01:07:14 CU 2 young women workers (teenagers?) assemble electric rotors; putting coils on & tapping w/ small hammer. Another girl works at machine. Same woman takes narrow pieces of pipe as they come out of machine. 01.08.33.05 Men moving heavy pipes: 1 brings a cart of pipes standing upright. 2 men lift pipe from cart; roll it on end to 3rd man; who lowers pipe into opening in floor; he wears a protective tough "apron" down to his knees; w/ a groove in it for pipe to slide down. CU woman working at machine in dimly lit room. 01:09:35 Team of teenage boys pull out long white-hot pipes or rods which have just been cast. Next; pan down long room; teenage boys welding pipes together. CU boy welder working. 01.11.06.21 A huge; powerful magnet is lowered on chains onto a pile of scraps of metal; when raised many pieces stick to magnet. Pan on magnet moving left; then suddenly dropping all the scraps. Manufacturing; energy; skilled labor; piecework; manual dexterity; child labor. Cont. | |
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