The Town and the Telephone

Duration: 1000 ft

Year Published: 1950

Complete Record: small town, construction, families, kids at school, milkman, mailman, lots of different people on phone, CU phones, repairman climbing pole, crowded row of operators, operators with headsets, going through big directory book, plugging and unplugging cords, stock disaster footage(tornado/fires), friendly telephone repairman talks to boy/housewife, montage of families on the phone, 50s accounting women, circuit boards, lots of wires, drafting boards, engineers, installing cables on poles and underground, punch card computing bills, multiple floating/rotating films, glowing diagram wires crisscrossing US map, factory manufacturing telephones and wires, laboratory scientists testing telephones