Making Conversation

Duration: 12½min

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Western Electric

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: Sound

Description: Unfortunately, this film has a printing defect of some kind where it seems the yellow strip of the three-strip technicolor process was drifting in and out of focus. I thought Technicolor would have had better quality control! Western Electric was an engineering/manufacturing arm of the Bell Telephone System for AT&T. See the astounding web of switchboard systems, onto the factory production line of the telephone shown in a variety of colors. And of course, it's the famous 'Model 500'. I found reference to the film being shot in 1957, in a Sandia Labs newspaper. https://archive.org/details/C166_Lab_News_03-22-57/mode/2up?q=%22Making+Conversation%22 I improved it as I could, but there wasn't too much that could be done. Film also had some basically glued-on dirt, I gave a lot of cleaning passes but there was still a decent amount. Lightly applied digital dirt/scratch removal, there's probably a stray artifact here or there I didn't catch. Also lightly corrected color. *Please reach out regarding commercial usage/licensing of scan*

Complete Record: Source: BellTel Interest level: jh-sh-ad Price: free-loan Format: sd color

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBUYNy0FlM

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