Synopsis
Many shots of laying telephone cable in different ways and stringing telephone line and splicing; lines of switchboard operators; Shots: paddlewheelers; old part of Atlanta; aerials of Atlanta's business district; Building construction; bricklayer; pouring concrete from truck; sugar refinery; aluminum plant; grain elevator; shipbuilding; great shots of heavy equipment moving; steel manufacturing; man dialing phone in office; assembly line manufacturing; tire manufacturing; textile manufacturing; bon voyage wishers come down gangway from ocean liner; bon voyage streamers fly; passengers wave; ship is untied and casts off train yard; Delta Airlines jet taxing on runway; highways; aircraft building; man waving and giving OK sign out of jet plane cockpit; troops drilling and weapons training; soldier is shown in squeezing off few rounds on his M-16.radio antenna built on top of small mountain; Sign: SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, an atomic energy plant: truck with ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION on the side; traffic into plant being stopped and inspected; guard puts up hand in universal "Halt" sign; hundreds of people walking near the administration building; building miles of 7-foot pipe for the millions of gallons of water the plant needs; telephone Southern Bell military attended telephone center; switchboard operators place long distance calls for soldiers; soldiers wait in lounge; when call is ready, the go to a booth to take it. soldiers place phone calls in booths; montage of people…
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Details
- Running time
- 18 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0738_Partners_in_Progress_22_31_21_00