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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221684-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1920s
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 02:00:01
TC Ends: 02:15:59
Duration: 00:15:58
1920s - Telephone Operators; Cable Installation; Telegraph & Telegraph Sending Telephone wiring panel, CU attaching screws. Mechanical rotating ?? & machinery. 02:00:55 Telephone operators reading & talking in lounge of living quarters. Moving along cafeteria line to cashier. Room full of young women eating at tables. Cooks & cooking staff in kitchen. 02:02:16 Line repairman splicing wiring in underground. Man on pole platform attaching wires. Underground wiring repairs by two men. 02:03:25 Slate. Pulling wire from large Western Electric drum into manhole in street; men feeding large cable w/ pedestrians & city traffic passing. People watching. 02:03:49 Diagram of phone system on wall, man traces path of signal. 02:05:20 Bank of counters. Switchboard operators w/ headsets & connecting jacks at work. 02:05:51 Man w/ tool wagon above manhole in street, cars passing; park & city buildings behind. 02:06:10 Equipment in display case. Man reading instrument in battery racks (?). CU batteries. 02:07:10 Car along country road lined w/ telephone poles, stops. Repairman straps on climbing hooks & climbs pole into many wires on five cross bars. Tests circuits. 02:09:11 Man on platform on single pole w/ lines in alley behind houses. Opens cable w/ many wires & splices wires for circuits w/ box on pole. 02:10:42 View in ditch w/ clay blocks to carry six channels of cables; men placing additional ones. CU of cables entering building thru brick wall. CU meter registering current. 02:11:29 Man at control panel w/ electric dynamos (?) beginning to turn. 02:11:51 Two men at diagram of phone system, listening w/ earphones testing circuits of one-party & four-party circuits. Man w/ pointer explaining system to young man. 02:14:29 Man beside Benjamin Franklin on rooftop overlooking city. Man pours acid into wash tub as Franklin watches. 02:15:08 Women at rows of teletype machines w/ ticker tape. MCU typing telegram. CU man typing on keys w/ ticker-tape running past. Men reading tickertape & using telegraph keys. Instruction; Americana; Repairmen; AT&T; American Telephone & Telegraph; NOTE: Bell Telephone logo seen on repair truck originated in 1921.