Synopsis
Man in bowler hat approached engineer in large office seated at desk. Engineer explains the basics of telephony and the future breakthroughs that need to take place in the technology. Engineer explains to layman visitor the basics of repeaters, amplifiers, and loading coils. Camera zooms in on door with decal on foggy glass window “Repeater Development”; folders full of papers superimposed over shot of door, folders have Laboratories Folder labels, one folder after another fades in as other fades out, various subjects written on folders: repeater circuits theory general, vacuum tubes for wire transmission systems, repeaters on loaded telephone lines. Great pan over engineer’s papers scattered on table filled with formulas, graphs and notes related to telephony. Great men surveying land, and building and raising telephone poles and wiring them in the desert in open planes and desert, map of western United States superimposed over several shot. Great shot men putting wire up on telephone pole as men below post sign on pole San Francisco-New York Nevada-Utah State Line and wave an American flag, engineer puts American flag on top of telephone pole. (This is a historical reenactment of the completion of the transcontinental US long distance telephone network in 1915).
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- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0826_Continent_is_Bridged_A_10_19_05_00