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U.S. Events in Telephony

Item number (ISN):

444380

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1927

Item number (ISN):

444380

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BELL CANADA

Accession:

1979-0192

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1927

Description:

Documentary on milestones in U.S. telephony. Squences on early equipment, boys trying out demonstration sets, women switchboard operators, line crews, etc. Shots of splicing demonstration, trans continent pole line construction from New York to San Francisco. Ceremony as construction ends at meeting on Utah-Nevada border. Various views of newspaper headlines of events, one proclaiming that Warren G. Harding called Cuba. Sequences on trans Atlantic cable-laying operation beginning. Final sequence on wartime telephone centre, with members of the U.S. armed forces using the phones. <4mn 10s>

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

176377

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8108-0025

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7906-1679

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

598252

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7906-1679

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8108-0025

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bell Canada~The HISTORICAL NEWSREELS compilation is open for consultation and copyright has expired - see letter of 5 June 1996 in Collection File.

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