Recherche dans la collection - U.S. Events in Telephony

BELL CANADA

1979-0192

Film

1 of 1

1927

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>

Libre

V1 8108-0025

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.