Descriptive Catalogue of Pathéscope Films (1918)

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CLASS 2 — Industries, Forestry, Agriculture 33 REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER A160 toA-163 Making of an Electric Locomotive This is an Industrial and Educational subject by the General Electric Company, showing all of the manufacturing steps connected with the building of a gigantic electric standard gauge locomotive. One feature (among others of almost equal educational value) is the graphic representation of the flow of the electric current through the controlling devices and the motors themselves, in a sectional view of the locomotive by which the action of the current is as nearly visualized as it possibly can be. Two enormous hydro-electric generating plants in Montana are shown, in which the tremendous current used in driving these electric trains is generated and from which its distribution is also illustrated. A164 A Trip by Rail Through the American Rockies See Class 1. A-215-b A Visit to the Largest Copper Smelter in the World Essanay A short Industrial subject showing the processes of smelting copper, etc., in one of the big Arizona smelters, which will be of particular interest to schools and educational institutions. A-233-a Slate Industry Bray-Paramount A short industrial educational subject giving some particularly good views of the quarrying and finishing of school slates and blackboards. A-233-b Old and New Locomotives Bray-Paramount Treating popularly and in contrast a very antique B. & O. locomotive and one of the latest types of modern locomotives. A-234-a Tobacco and Cigars Bray-Paramount An educational industrial showing the growth of the tobacco plant and its subsequent curing and manufacture into cigars. A-234-b Candles to Electricity Bray-Paramount Showing the gradual evolution of the lighting problem from the tallow dip to the electric incandescent light. A-258-b Do You Drink Milk? Bray-Paramount Indicating the protection and safeguards surrounding the production of milk in a modern sanitary dairy and its handling in the most approved and up-to-date manner. A-277-a Lace Making Bray-Paramount An elderly Belgian refugee, one time lace maker to the Queen of Belgium, shows how to make fine Flemish lace by hand. This is a very tedious process, as only four inches of lace can be made a day, working at top speed and with no mistakes.