"Welding the Big Ring" cinematographer Billy Bitzer (1904)
1904 · Silent film · 6 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
A 1904 Westinghouse Works actuality: the welding of a large ring at the East Pittsburgh works; the series was added to the National Film Registry in 1998.
Synopsis, reviewed
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- Running time
- 6 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Fascinating · fred hedges · 2015-07-20
As someone who worked in a heavy forge shop back in the 1970s, I find this record of primitive fabrication technique fascinating. Also scary. I wonder how many of these men made it to age 60 before being killed or maimed. Yow.
