Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Crew of workers with heavy machinery in Redondo Beach, at steam plant. Format of original: Reel
SCE MP 140
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Manuscripts
Film shows the original wooden flumes on the Kern River, and how they were later replaced with metal flumes on the Borel Conduit. Scenes of construction, workers, equipment. (Poor condition - severe vinegar syndrome and curling film.) Format of original: Reel
SCE MP 614
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Manuscripts
Format of original: Reel
SCE MP 061
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Southern California Edison promotional film features a housewife preparing dinner for eight persons at short notice. She uses her modern electrical appliances in her kitchen to prepare the meal easily and still make her afternoon theater reservations. "Dinner for Eight" was the second experimental film of any kind made using the Technicolor process, done in 1934 as a test and shown in theatres by Edison as an advertisement for electric appliances. Format of original: Reel (see DVD copy)
SCE MP 608
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Format of original: Reel. [Note: slight vinegar odor] Promotional film and survey of California Electric Power terrain and infrastructure, aerial footage of snow in Sierras, workers checking equipment in deep snow. 11:51 scenes of California cities and towns with emphasis on neon signs and including steel foundry, agriculture, and household appliances in use. 30:00 mark shifts to SCE workers in the field, pouring concrete, work camps, inside a power station. Includes narration of a power line blow out filmed in slow motion.
SCE MP 036