AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COVER FOOTAGE MATERIAL/ LABORATORIES, LONG LINES, WESTERN ELECTRIC, BELL OPERATING COMPANIES.

Brezhnev-era industrial propaganda, 1970s. Factories, building sites and transportation systems. Aerial footage of the Tupolev Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft. Scientists at work in a laboratory. Automobile manufacture. Close up cobblestones on Red Square and street-cleaning trucks. Close up clock on the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower as its bells chime. Aerial footage of Moscow, including river, Stalinist architecture, and the Kremlin.

16:39:12:00,Telephone industrial on progress of phone system (previews the semiconductor), UPA-style animation explains wireless communication and development of vacuum tube, CU newspaper headline "Transcontinental Telephone Line Completed", Boardroom with CEO talking about transcontinental telephone line, Boss explains meaning of the word "telephone", Myron Healy challenges cost of calling coast-to-coast, Animation depicts five conversations on one line, 1,2,3,4,5 moves across screen, Animated feedback amplifier distorts voice, word "Hello" goes through wires, Coax cable (live and animated), Inventor of coax around boardroom table, Men lay coax cable, Early television camera, TV tower rises into sky, Animated radar generates waves and strikes plane, "500", "1200" and "1800" beamed out to plan (animated), Animated snow over waves, Old man looks at cut out hollow pipe, Wave pipe, Men graphic multiplies and moves around screen (animate), Animated phone lines 1, 3, 10, 21, 45, 4900, Phone operator makes connection, makes calls (a smiling blonde), Modern phone switching system, Man walks up to huge switching system, Lights on board, Man dials rotary business phone, Manufacturing switching site, Machine takes calls (relay station), Ext. Bell Labs with flag flying (NJ), Bell Research scientists at work, Scientist at chalkboard, Scientist in chemistry lab and at chalkboard, Vacuum tube lights up (animated), "?" over "X" box (question mark and the letter X), Silhouette of man picks up natural semiconductors (sand, etc.) on table, Spinning disc in chemical experiment (NEAT), Large bell jar over experiment, Wave on testing equipment (1st transistor), Bell scientist wins Nobel Prize (award ceremony), Experimental Bell Switching Center (electronic), Pretty woman puts on glasses, Satellite spins in void, 1930s Paramount truck on location for shooting (neat), Man makes disc recording, record spins, Early television system (dramatization), Buzz bomb tracked by radar, Antarctic research lab, missile takes off (GREAT), Missile take off (great), Pretty woman sits with dummy's head on top of hers, she wears headphones (very weird), raises hand, Strange looking chamber with woman in middle, Hand holds early memory chip, Computer tapes spin in big machines, Man holds long rod called optical Mazer, Early picture phone, Early 1960s version of picture phone use with housewife talking to butcher who shows off meat, Echo satellite takes off, Man on phone, Animation of how satellite works from "Cal to NJ", Man prepares satellite, Rocket goes into space (nice and long), Satellite antenna (big), Man looks into microscope, sees atom, Man "thinking" hard, Tube lights up with scientist looking on, Animated world connected by phone lines, Animated Earth beams radio waves to colonized moon and beyond, Bell Systems logo

Animation of a man with facial palsy, a form of paralysis causing asymmetry and drooping of the facial muscles on one side of the face.

A FOUR-POINT-NINE BILLION-DOLLAR PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SOUTHWESTERN BELL AND COX CABLE COMMUNICATIONS TO EXPAND COX'S EXISTING CABLE NETWORK AND SERVICES IS IN THE WORKING. COX'S CABLE SYSTEM, WHICH IS ALREADY THE SIXTH-LARGEST IN THE NATION, WILL DOUBLE IN SIZE.

Bells of St Peter's

BELL SYSTEM LOGO

Once Upon a Honeymoon (part 1 of 4). A Gower Champion directed film, ""Once Upon a Honeymoon"", in fifties Technicolor to push Bell System's new color coordinated telephones. Animated heavenly gates open and ZI to round tables around which are seated angels to discuss marriage. Head angel sends angel Wilbur to help a couple on earth. Shot angel Wilbur rapidly descending to earth thru clouds and uses a one piece handset with dial built into it., lands on house roof, takes magic powder from pocket and drops onto roof. Once Upon a Honeymoon - 1956 - Delightful musical made to promote color telephones as a decorator accessory in the home.

A Bell System representative at the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle explains how to use the company's call transfer system. A woman receives a call at her friend's house.

C.S. Long Lines

Over Half-Century of Telephone Progress, 1920s: Short film explaining with stills the birth of the telephone, titles interspersed. Dramatizations of Dr. Bell?s first telephone call to Mr. Watson; of Dr. Bell demonstrating the device to Don Pedro of Brazil at the Centennial Exposition 1876 in Philadelphia; shots of operation of early switchboards. Shows operation of modern switchboard, closer shots of female operators. Shot of diagram describing a mechanical dialing system.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

New bells are cast for University of North Carolina at the Meneely Bell Company in Troy, New York

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

ORIG. COLOR 270 SOF CLOSEUP DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SEAL. MEDIUM CLOSEUP ATTORNEY GENERAL GRIFFIN BELL GIVES SPEECH AND ANSWERS QUESTIONS FROM EMPLOYERS ON INTER-DEPARTMENTAL POLICY. MEDIUM SHOT YOUNG WOMAN QUESTIONING BELL ON PROMOTIONS (MERIT SYSTEM VS RACIAL QUOTAS). CI: GOVERNMENT: AGENCIES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. PERSONALITIES: BELL, GRIFFIN.

CU BELL SYSTEM SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY LOGO

Animation of a man with facial palsy, a form of paralysis causing asymmetry and drooping of the facial muscles on one side of the face.

Touch-O-Matic

Young boy seen peaking his head through a hole in a wooden fence. Similar shot with young girl then back to young boy. WS of three children peaking through holes in a fence at various heights. Shot from the back as we see the three young children peering through holes in fence. ZO from three children as the building in front of them under construction can be seen. MCU of yellow “Building to serve you and your family better sign”. Young boy sits on ground in his bedroom speaking on a red, rotary style phone. Young girl lays on bed and speaks on a purple rotary style phone. Housewife dials white phone rotary phone in kitchen. Man on phone in suit surrounded by blueprints. Farmer walks up to black phone and picks up, cow, barn and silo can be seen to right of shot. Man using pay phone next to highway as cars rush by. Baby in crib in crib looks around Construction freight elevator moves up building. Phone company workers stand by wall of telephone line connections. Workers unrolling phone cables from large wheel under the street. WS of steel building skeleton. Interior of warehouse with cart moving down aisle full of supplies. Storekeeper ringing up customer, old style register. Police officers helps kids across the street. Various shots of radar arrays and domes, group of men using phones. Bell telephone sign. CU of beige rotary telephone. Man sits with family in 1950s style living room and picks up the phone. Shot of woman in bed sleeping soundly next to pink rotary telephone on night table. CU of pink telephone on night table. WS of U.S. Army Nike Hercules missile battery. Shot of men and women working on computer launching system. Two shots of radar types on tower spinning and searching for targets. Men and women working on radar guidance system in a workshop. Man slowly detached large dish on radar unit. MCU of two women testing various connections in radar computer with voltage meters and slide circuit boards back into main unit. Shot of inside of radar mechanisms as it spins, operator pushes button on machine to increase speed. Man in a large winter coat tests radar equipment inside a cold room. Shot of two men testing radar nose cone while it shakes rapidly. WS of Nike Hercules missile on launch pad, missile launches and takes off. WS of Titan missile on testing launch pad, missile ignites and launches. Several CU shots of the missile in flight as it gains vertical altitude. WS of small pleasure craft on the sea. Large ship retrieving nose cone of Hercules missile, shots of men on deck. Shot of men and women working on missile guidance computer. Shots of three Nike Hercules missiles on launch pad as soldier looks on. CU on white rotary phone. WS pull-out of man on telephone with family in 50s style living room. Fade to black. Shot of a woman from underneath a glass table as she counts seeds. Two male scientists, one with bowtie examine large crystal grown from seeds. CU of white rotary phone. Woman wearing a blue dress with a pink cardigan sits on a blue chair and speaks on a pink rotary phone. Animation of the voice waves on bottom of screen. Animation of voice waves going across the screen with an orange background. CU of female hand holding quartz crystals. Shot of women sitting in a row behind switchboard and talking to callers and rerouting calls to extensions. Female scientist examines several stacked quartz crystals in a metallic frame. Female hand handles quartz crystals. Two male scientist place crystal seeds into pressure cooker. Scientist places chemical solution into pressure cooker and closes top of pressure cooker. Animation of seed turning into crystal, various layer can be seen in animation. Scientist handles newly made crystals wearing lab coat, protective head gear and brown rubber gloves. Crystals are cut with a diamond saw to thin pieces. Man creates a form to modify crystals. Female hand points to crystals inside a piece of hardware used for telecommunications. Three male scientists examine newly formed crystals as they come out of pressure cooker. ZI of woman in blue dress with pink cardigan talks on a beige rotary phone. Tom Shirley stands by a door that reads “Dial System Central Office”. Man opens to and fade to reveal high rows of telephone system machinery. ZI on small conductor moving left and right. Fade to female hand making a call on a brown rotary phone. CU of heart rate machine read-out. WS of female operators in a row connecting calls to extensions. Three men observe high stacks of telephone machinery. MCU of woman in a blue dress speaking on yellow, kitchen wall style, rotary phone. Elderly woman speaks to woman on using a white rotary style telephone. MCU woman speaking on yellow phone. Quick CU of telephone system machinery moving back and forth. MCU of Tom Shirley again speaking about the fun of receiving and making telephone calls. Elderly woman in kitchen reading from a cookbook and talking on a red, rotary style telephone. Man stands in living room talking on a blue, rotary style telephone. Shot of young girl laying in her bed talking on a beige style rotary phone. Tom Shirley again coming out of the “Dial System Central Office” door speaking about the enjoyment of receiving phone calls from friends and family. Fade to woman in kitchen speaking on a yellow phone. Woman laughs and fade out.

A Bell System representative at the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle explains how to use the company's call waiting system. A woman uses this feature to take two different calls.

07:30:10:00,Reinactment of early Long Distance telephone office (shack in New Jersey) headed by bearded old guy (looks like prospector) Collins talks on wall phone, Turn of century street scene, Stringing phone wire in desert, WWI battle scene, Armistice Day scene, Women at switchboard, Construction of building, Switchboard (VERY NICE), Recreation of 1927 television demo, Girl at rural town switchboard, looks excited and worried, Steel mills, Coins rise, Switchboards (NICE), Pearl Harbor attack, Caldener pages flip over the year 1941, Soldiers marching, Overhead of phone plant, War footage, Returning soldiers march up Fifth Avenue, Man makes speech as he retires after 50 years, Cake with Bell System logo

St. Louis police are investigating one of their own. Several investigators went back to the place where fellow officers allegedly beat-up a mentally retarded man. Police thought the man was a robber. Patrick Clark has the story.

00:00:00:00 [Presser: NJ Health Commissioner George DiFerdinando, state epidemiologist Eddy Bresnitz, and Dr Beth Bell of the CDC brief on the latest in the anthrax situation]-- parties enter pres ...