Vista Stock Shots: Office Communications and Machines (1960)

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hand of female telephone operator patches calls with quarter inch cables; operator’s hand dials on phone with rotary dial in bottom right corner of frame. two rows of inputs for telephone operator to patch calls into. Hand plugs in quarter inch cable into input two. tilted angle mouth of man speaks into radio mounted on wall. Extreme hand dials on rotary dials of phone; hand holding phone receiver beside phone dialing with other hand on rotary dial of phone. Movie clapper board with information director Fowler; camera, Joseph P. Dieves; scene, 25; take, 1; date, January 31, 1962. black phone with rotary dial on wood table, camera zooms in as hand lifts receiver and begins to dial. rotary dial of phone with Yukon 6-1221 written in center of dial.:02 Extreme mouth on white phone receiver shot in red light shot at two different angles; ear on white phone receiver shot in red light. Tilted face speaker box with brown wood cabinet mounted on blue wall like a speaker in a classroom. Dozens of red and blue cables patched between lines of inputs on telephone operator switchboard;row of red and white lights on bottom which flash on and off. Two men’s shadows projected on a colorfully lit screen. One shadow picks up phone, the other follows and answers phone. two lines of telephone line inputs with lights beneath each input; line two lights up and hand plugs cable into input in number two position on switchboard.. overhead angle of pairs of alternating red and white wires with…

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16 minutes

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Prelinger Archives