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MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION
Story of an Automobile (Studebaker) — 5 reels — Bu. Min<
This film covers the entire manufacture of an automobile from the raw material to the finished product — founding, forging and finishing of metals and the final assembling of parts.
Storage Batteries and Diamond Cutting — N. C. E.
The diamond cutting industry — the manufacture of necklaces — building storage batteries.
Valve-in-Head Motor — 3 reels — Buick Motor Co., Flint, Mich.
The use of the animated drawing is of special interest in this film which shows the making, assembling, and operation of a valve-in-head motor — -'ignition and action of gas in the cylinder.
V-Type Cylinder Car — 3 reels — Cadillac Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich.
The making, assembling and minute inspection and tests of an automobile.
Railroads
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Ry. — G. E.
The advantages of electrification of railways, using as an example the line between Butte and Anaconda, over which copper ore must be transported through a rough and mountainous country.
Conservation of Railway Fuel — Bu. Mines.
Showing correct and incorrect methods of firing locomotives.
Electrified Travelogue — 2 reels — TT. E.
These two reels take us back to ancient Egypt and trace the development of transportation methods by the various peoples up to the electric locomotive — the construction and operation of a modern electric railroad are convincingly shown — the scenery along the way adds greatly to the interest of the picture.
King of the Rails — 3 reels — G. E.
This film on transportation goes back to the native American and through the stone-boat, wheel-barrow, and more modern vehicles to the DeWitt Clinton, the first locomotive, a feature that will prove of great historical interest. The film culminates with the great electric locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad now in operation through the Rocky Mountains.