Armour & Company was one of the United States’s leading meatpacking firms and Chicago, IL’s most important business by the late nineteenth century. Armour’s massive slaughterhouse, meatpacking plant, and stockyards made Chicago the hub of America’s meat industry. In 1901, local film producer William N. Selig of the Selig Polyscope Company made more than sixty short industrial films for Armour, including this one.
According to The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry (1998) by Anthony Slide, Selig made these movies in Apr 1901 and May 1901 “to document the operations of the slaughterhouse and meat-packing plant.” Selig claimed later that these were the first motion pictures shot with artificial light. ...
Armour & Company was one of the United States’s leading meatpacking firms and Chicago, IL’s most important business by the late nineteenth century. Armour’s massive slaughterhouse, meatpacking plant, and stockyards made Chicago the hub of America’s meat industry. In 1901, local film producer William N. Selig of the Selig Polyscope Company made more than sixty short industrial films for Armour, including this one.
According to The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry (1998) by Anthony Slide, Selig made these movies in Apr 1901 and May 1901 “to document the operations of the slaughterhouse and meat-packing plant.” Selig claimed later that these were the first motion pictures shot with artificial light.
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