Publication date 1950 Usage Public Domain Topics Communication: Telephone, Infrastructure: Information Digitizing sponsor American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T), Bell System

Postwar expansion of telephone service made possible by development of microwave radio transmission and the transistor.

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Studies possible trends of telephone service, including the improvement and expansion of service in rural areas and the development and application of microwave radio relay systems. Discusses the role of transistors.

Ken Smith notes: This film gives you a good feel for the vast, monolithic scope of the Bell System (or "the long arm of friendly telephone service," as the narrator of this film describes it) in the days when Ma Bell was still the world's greatest monopoly. A cheerful sales representative shows an appropriately dazzled group of average Americans a number of then-current Bell Telephone marvels -- repeaters, transistors, automated crossbar switching systems, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable -- and reminds them that "this is a business that has always dealt in the future!" "We've come a long way because we wanted to," the narrator adds.



05:10:38:15 - 05:11:07:18

Driving POV - we're looking up at only the tips of telephone poles and wires until there's a dissolve to clouds in the sky. We hear the sound of phone conversations.





Telephony Telephones Electronic communication Microwave radio Communications Construction Electronics Telephones (history) Telephone operators Television (transmission)

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Addeddate 2002-07-16 00:00:00 Closed captioning no Collectionid 19358 Color B&W Identifier StoryWit1950 Numeric_id 1047 Proddate 1950 Run time 18:08 Sound Sd Type MovingImage