Telephone and Telegraph (1946)

★★★★ · I wanna be an operator! · Spuzz · 2005-07-04

Once again, we have a 'Your Life's Work' that dictates the work that you will work in, according to your gender. In other words, the boys get all the technical stuff, and the ladies will get the operator positions. Waaah! No fair! I'm typing this as I wait for calls as an operator for a call center, (Yes, it's really slow at the moment), and I gotta say, what if you like talking to people. Have a strong customer service background, and are detailed? Well, I suppose there WAS sales... Anyways, this film is made for the pretense that if you WERE thinking about this career, and it WAS 1950's…

★★★ · Brought to you by Western Union. Stop. · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-03-21

Late 40's vocational film covering the careers in telegraph and telephone industries. Lots of shots of analog telecommuications equipment, along with mention of early radio-telephone and facsimilie machines. What I found interesting is how up front gender divided the roles were (women as operators and teletype operators where a high school education would be "useful"; men as couriers, engineers and managers, the later two urged to get a college degree). It also appears that some of the footage, such as the historical recreations of the late 19th century Western Union office and Bell's…