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'Depicts the development and importance of electric power from
Benjamin Franklin's experiment with a kite to the contributions of
Thomas Edison.
First ten-minute sequence, showing history of
American independence territorial expansion and electrical development, is animated.
- Commemorates
General Electric's 75th anniversary (1878-1953).
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Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive pulling passenger train on
Northeast Corridor route
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Shots of heavy industry
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Radio announcer, transmission tower, man and woman watching television,
LIFE magazines being bound
- Newspapers coming off press
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Cars on street
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Electric utility dispatchers at work
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Power plants
- Appliances, domestic and industrial uses of electricity
- Generators and generating plants
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Transmission lines
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Surprise birthday party for old man, family singing "
Happy Birthday to You"
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Scenes of earlier days before electricity
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Electricity on the farm
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Tracking shot past typist working on typewriter and clerk working on adding machine
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Kitchen appliances
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Electric heater in suburban home
- Animated atomic nucleus superimposed over suburban home
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Rural areas
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Jefferson Memorial,
Washington, D.C.
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Interiors of home
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MCU television set built into fireplace with TV image showing
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Various interior shots of appliances
- Animated view of suburban houses turning red -- as neighborhood turns red, anti-communist narration:
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Narrator: "But now our freedoms are threatened by forces that would crush our liberties and tyrannize the minds of men.
Against these forces we have the weapons of freedom: courage, faith, and the creative spirit. And we have the tool that built our way of life -- productivity.
America, with only 6% of the world's population, produces over 40% of the world's goods."
- Animated products flying out from map of the
United States
Great animation of productivity and increasing horsepower
Guided missile launching "to preserve our freedoms for the greater world to come"
- Animated sky brightening over power transmission lines
...'
Public domain film from the
Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric
General Electric (GE) is an
American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in
New York and headquartered in
Fairfield, Connecticut.
As of 2015, the company operates through the following segments:
Power and
Water,
Oil and Gas,
Energy Management,
Aviation,
Healthcare,
Transportation, and
Capital.
In
2011, GE ranked among the
Fortune 500 as the 26th-largest firm in the
U.S. by gross revenue, as well as the
14th most profitable. However, the company is listed the fourth-largest in the world among the
Forbes Global 2000, further metrics being taken into account...
General Electric was formed through the 1892 merger of
Edison General Electric Company of
Schenectady, New York, and
Thomson-Houston Electric Company of
Lynn, Massachusetts, with the support of
Drexel, Morgan & Co. Both plants continue to operate under the GE banner to this day...
Public company
In 1896, General Electric was one of the original 12 companies listed on the newly formed
Dow Jones Industrial Average. After
118 years, it is the only one of the original companies still listed on the
Dow index, although it has not been on the index continuously...
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