Telephone Lineman

★★★ · Wichita Linemen · Wilford B. Wolf · 2009-06-28

1950s short from the series Americans At Work, produced by the AFL-CIO, meant to be shown on television. The film covers the different jobs that telephone linemen do: installers, splicing wires, putting up telephone poles, running microwave relay stations, etc. The tone of the narration is a bit overwrought, as it made the workers seem heroic for working in all sorts of weather and whatnot. Still an interesting film for those interested in telephone history.

★★ · I can hear you through the whine · Spuzz · 2012-05-01

Pretty stadnard film about, yes, telephoner repairmen. Show the many step of getting a pole into the ground, setting up wires and so on is done. While this is done, the nostaligia factor can only take this film so far. Mostly Dry and Dull,