Building a harbor at San Pedro /

"This picture was secured from a launch furnished by Mr. Eager, President of the California Construction Co., who are fulfilling this $5,000,000 contract. Here is seen the largest derrick in the world at work, showing the huge arm straining and swaying. The spray effects are very fine, as the huge rocks strike the water, sending beautiful masses of foam hundreds of feet in the air and drenching the men at work on the cars. The derrick is at work on a long pier which extends out in the sea for a distance of about two miles, and for this reason we were obliged to secure our picture from a launch"--Edison films catalog no. 135.
H11749 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 19Dec1901; H11749.
Duration: 4:00 at 14 fps.
Photographed in 1901 in San Pedro, California.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1968) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 39; Edison films catalog, no. 135, Sept. 1902, p. 54-55 [MI]; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 129-130.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
paper pos Received: 1901-12-19; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
Paper print roll lacking suffix.