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• Directors: A2ZCDS.com
• Format: Collector's Edition, Flash, Full length, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, Color, Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A2ZCDS.com
• DVD Release Date: March 21, 2005
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00078MLK2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,087 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Westinghouse continues to be one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Are you interested in how George Westinghouse got his mega company off the ground at the turn of the century? This exclusive collection of 100 year-old films shot at the turn of the century captures this industrial powerhouse as it was gearing up to power the 20th century. This collection is invaluable to any business student, historian or film buff.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Had No Idea, May 23, 2006

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Arthur (America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: History of Westinghouse - An American Industrial Powerhouse DVD (DVD)

I've heard the Westinghouse name before of course, but I had no idea they were such a huge and powerful corporation or that they have been around so long. These films are clearly older but they make the point that Westinghouse is a huge company that makes all types of t hings that I had never associated with them. The scenes on the factory floor are the best because they show how massive an operation Westinghouse is. This was a real learning experience.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected., September 23, 2008

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T. Riffe "old plumber" (central Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: History of Westinghouse - An American Industrial Powerhouse DVD (DVD)

What I presumed was going to be a documentary history of Westinghouse, complete with narration, is nothing more than silent raw footage taken in 1904 of subjects randomly picked out of context. You get do be a deaf fly on the wall while women perform the tedious task of winding armatures or just filing out after a shift. They take you on a train ride around the Westinghouse factory complex and someone put a movie camera on a dolly and panned backward on a warehouse floor. In another clip we see sections of an electric dynamo being assembled. All of the video is set against a continuous loop of monotonous background music.
These snippets are fascinating in themselves as bits of moving picture history but hardly instructional if you want to know more about George Westinghouse and the great company he built.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but no sound or narration., July 28, 2008

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R. Morton (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: History of Westinghouse - An American Industrial Powerhouse DVD (DVD)

This is a set of silent film clips that were filmed in the various factories of Westinghouse at the time. While the background music is somewhat annoying, it is better than nothing at all as in "The Westinghouse Works Collection - A 1904 Tour of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and the Westinghouse Machine Company (DVD)" which has the exact same film clips. This version (with background music) has been cleaned up a bit and has nicer title frames for each segment. Another drawback to this one is the horrible advertising from A2ZCDS.COM

If you really want a history of Westinghouse, then purchase the "Westinghouse DVD". This one is very good.