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Movie poster: Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene) (1904)
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Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)

1904 · 3 min Documentary
3.8 / 10 · TMDB

What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up with tongs the parts that have been dumped onto the ground and put them on a pile in the foreground.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1904
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary
Director Billy Bitzer
Runtime 3 min.
Rating TMDB: 3.8/10 (5 votes)

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The film constructs its narrative purely through observation, relying on the unadorned documentation of a process. There is no story, only the hypnotic rhythm of manual labor.

What lingers after viewing is a meditative study of early industrial mechanics, where the value lies in the act of preserving a bygone era of work. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Billy Bitzer

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Watch in silence, as a historical artifact from the dawn of cinema.

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