Synopsis
A 1941 film on long-distance telephone communication in America and the network of wires and technologies that connects people across the country.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 14 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · LONG DISTANCE, a polished 1941 documentary from AT&T · ERD. · 2010-01-17
Historically interesting to watch this well made 1941 documentary about long distance from AT&T, a time when the company was very powerful. Excellent photography and narration.
★★★★ · Another Top Rate AT&T PR Film · JayKay49 · 2018-03-20
AT&T did several PR films of outstanding quality. This one is good but there are much better ones - "Dial Comes To Town" is a classic. The one that tells you how to work in the bill collection office is among the best films on this site (I forget the title). I still don't get how those girls know which wire to pull up on and for heavens sakes which of those dozens & dozens of holes to stick it in - all, like in a split second.
★★★ · Long Distance · mike bennet · 2005-04-17
About two thirds of this film is overlay footage of 1930"s and 40"s techinical equipment for comunications. If you are an telephone history buff it is great.
★★ · Yes, and? · Spuzz · 2004-10-08
I was intrigued by the shots of the women in the LD tables, so I eagerly dl'ed it, expecting some wonderful movie about Long Distance Dialling. Well, the movie focuses on that for a little bit, but then seagues into this curious mishmash about discoverers discovering land in the 1800's and how the US was born and so on. It also tells us about how far people can be from one another. Not very interesting imho. (great, I'm the only downlaoder of this film thus far and I'm already criticising it).
