Manuscripts

Culinary Connections: Sharpen Your Competitive Edge

Description

Format of original: VHS (See DVD copy)

Run time: 11:01

Focuses on the use of electric power in commercial food preparation, through the SCE Customer Technology Application Center. Includes the uses of electric power in food preparation by McDonald's, Kaiser Permanente, Benihana, and the New Orleans School of Cooking.

Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Production date

approximately 1914-1996.

Call number

SCE MP 301

Creator

Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Edison Centennial Reel 51, GJM Productions

Manuscripts

Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 22:27 Edison Centennial Reel 51 (Library Roll #1171-B+W stills). Includes the following photographs and documents: 1. Power station by water 5:00:39 2. Trans. lines 5:01:13 3. Men work on transmission. lines 5:01:35 4. Trans. line by white buildings 5:02:38 5. Trans. lines (row of) 5:03:22 6. Pacific Light and Power Corp. building (2 images) 5:04:03 7. Street sign with northern line (various shots) 5:05:48 8. Power line pan up 5:09:48 9. Drawing of reservoir 5:10:53 10. Men haul up equipment with horse-drawn cart 5:11:50 11. Nevada Power, Mining, and Milling annual report (color) 5:12:20 12. Men haul up equipment with horse-drawn cart 5:13:29 13. Row of trans. lines 5:15:29 14. Newspaper - "Good news for miners" 5:16:45 15. Busy street scene 5:17:25 16. People getting on train 5:18:57 17. Construction site 5:20:19 18. Men in interior of station 5:21:00 19. Men in white dress 5:22:09

SCE MP 244

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Horizons III 1982

Manuscripts

Format of original: VHS (See DVD copy) Run time: 17:03 Horizons employee newsletter featuring the following reports from Bill Myers: Coal-firing Plant-Mohave - first Edison coal generator. Includes commentary from Paul Chapman (Station Manager) So What's Avoided Cost? - utilities and the purchase of power Arresting : The Energy Thief Crisis - dangers of energy theft and the subsidization of costs to consumers. Features commentary from Phil Martin (SCE Vice President of Customer Services).

SCE MP 433

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TV Commercials

Manuscripts

Format of original: Reel Promoting energy savings in the home, man in shower, electric stovetop, thermostat. Founded in 1886, SCE is the largest electric utility in California. The Edison archive contains films from and for the company, circa 1900-2008, documenting the development of electric, hydro-electric, nuclear, and solar power.

SCE MP 018

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Edison Centennial Reel 50

Manuscripts

Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 24:25:00 Edison Centennial Reel 50 (Library Roll #1170 - Historical/B+W stills). Includes the following drawings and photographs: 1. Drawing of turbine (?) 4:00:46 2. Turbine (various shots) 4:01:03 3. Interior of plant 4:04:19 4. Conductor on cable car with horse 4:06:59 5. Exterior downtown scene 4:07:15 6. Early lineman (various shots) 4:10:02 7. Crowded street scene 4:12:43 8. Man with pipe in hole with wire 4:14:59 9. Early power station interior, man by controls 4:14:59 10. Drawing of X section of town line 4:15:59 11. Man in power station 4:17:04 12. Row of transmission. lines 4:17:59 13. Construction site 4:18:49 14. Men in early car with sacks, coming out of tunnel 4:19:44 15. Exterior power station by water (Big Creek) 4:22:27 16. Man sits on wood plank over water (Big Creek) 4:24:43

SCE MP 251

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Electricity for the Modern Farm; Thomas Alva Edison at General Electric; Herbert Hoover at Greenfield Village, Michigan, 1919-1929

Manuscripts

Compilation reel. First film is "Electricity for the Modern Farm" (c. 1919), contemporary references available online. Followed by Thomas Alva Edison as he tours the General Electric Company lamp laboratories in Schenectady, New York in 1922. Part 1: 15:01-21:03 Footage of Edison with photometer and illuminated lamps; Part 2: 21:59-34:26 Mr. Edison and Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz ride in a car and are greeted by 20,000 employees, footage of Dr. Coolidge explaining process of ductile tungsten, 31:07 women at work in plant with lamps; beginning 34:41-39:16 President Herbert Hoover and dedication of Edison Institute of Technology at Greenfield Village, Michigan, 1929. Format of original: negative

SCE MP 515

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Photographs of Edison customer pumping plants

Visual Materials

Xerox copies of photographs taken in 1936 of customer pumping plants converted to electric motor drives. The pumping plants are mostly being used in agriculture applications, and the photographs were taken to promote electric-powered ground-water pumping.

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