The World's Largest Electrical Workshop

How it feels

This 1930s documentary shows General Electric's research labs and factories. It features inventors and workers making products like radios and refrigerators.

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What happens

The World's Largest Electrical Workshop (1938), is a 30-minute, black and white, sound documentary film produced by Tri-State Pictures for General Electric. The film examines GE's research and manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Canada, highlights key GE inventors, and shows GE workers manufacturing a variety of products, including radios, refrigerators, televisions, and turbines. The film's entry in the 1946 Educational Film Guide describes the movie as providing "an intimate glimpse into America's largest electrical workshop". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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