That Little Big Fellow

Titles. 03:15:48 Dave Fleischer (?) at drawing board, inking in stop-motion telephone exchange circuitry. Draws character called Current who comes to life. 03:17:02 Man, Max Fleischer (?), in Inkwell Studios office picks up telephone receiver & talks into it to Fleischer. Current crawls out of office & to telephone office; watches live footage of operators working. 03:19:56 Runs out into racks of wiring. Man walking thru equipment room; talks to animated character who gets job & book explaining telephone system. 03:22:37 Brief shot of man rummaging thru wastebasket trash. 03:22:43 Animated figure, Current, sent thru system. CU hand on telephone hook trying to get operators attention, then thru system of cables, wires through city back to man trying to get operators attention. Back & forth thru system as though delivering voice back & forth along wires, up telephone poles & down into house to ring bell. Men talking to each other via messages carried by Current. 03:32:03 Title: Inkwell Studios Animation; Animated Character; Educational Films; Cell Animation; Rotoscoping (?); 1926 (?); 1927 (?); Industrial Films; American Telephone & Telegraph; AT&T; Bell Telephone; Oddities; Gags; Communications; NOTE: Intercut & combined live-action & cel-animation.