Heritage for Victory

Heritage for Victory

Rejissyor: Wilding Picture Productions. Some good shots to be logged.Telephones World War II home front Man tells the story of American communications from Gray & Barton, Edison and Bell and the first companies of Western Electric and Bell up through the role of communication technology in World War II. Great historical reenactment footage of the early figures in telegraph and telephone technology. 19:01:25:22 MS bald man wearing a suit and round glasses addresses camera �If you want the real story of what we�re doing today, you�ve got to look beyond the walls of factories and laboratories to people. People with ideas, skills, and experience. Yes, and something more. Something that is not easy to define but it�s very real.�19:02:25:26 Scene set in 1869 woman walks into Western Union Telegraph Company office in Rochester, N.Y.19:02:32:08 VS man in nineteenth century costume works on telegraph in Western Union office. 19:05:21:29 VS actors playing Gray and Barton demonstrating to Thomas Edison their telegraph.19:10:39:07 CU printer telegraph is removed from tabletop and replaced by early telephone model mounted on wall. 19:12:31:04 VS Actor playing Alexander Graham Bell shows man his switchboard servicing about 900 telephones in the late nineteenth century. 19:13:17:19 Man unveils for three people first modern switchboard for the Bell Phone Co. but fumbles to patch the wires and remarks perhaps �this board is too compact� to which woman answers �nothing of the kind. It�s simply that your fingers aren�t educated to this sort of thing. let me try. You should have had training with a needle and thread.� Woman easily is able to patch calls. Man amazed has epiphany that women should be telephone operators. 19:14:38:03 VS woman working as telephone operators in the 1880s and men placing calls. 19:07:03:08 Two old businessmen discuss the financial crisis of 1907. 19:18:17:20 VS CU telephone models with years superimposed over shot: 1908 model, 1925, 1945.19:18:30:04 Engineer fixing telephone switchboard. 19:18:24:

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