Collection search - U.S. Events in Telephony
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Record information – Brief U.S. Events in Telephony
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1927Item number (ISN):444380Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:BELL CANADAAccession:1979-0192Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1927Description: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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