GEC Factory Interiors (1910-1929)

General Electric Company factory interiors. Location of events unknown. Good shots of factory workers; machines. Opens w/ scenes in foundry. White hot molten steel pouring into vat; then from there into something else; while workers poke long sticks into it. Dark shot; only glowing liquid is visible. Next; great tracking shot moving over factory floor; looking down at workers engaged in various tasks; parts of large motors stacked all over; looks busy but rather haphazard. MS worker walking on big rotating cylinder as management types in suits watch. CU 2 young women workers assemble electric rotors; putting coils on & tapping w/ small hammer. Another woman works at machine. Same woman takes narrow pieces of pipe as they come out of machine. 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 wom
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