Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. <br/> <br/>Naples, Italy. Kerbside telephone installation. Italian voiceovered newsreel material. <br/> <br/>LV Car drawing up to telephone plug. SV Woman reaches out of car and plugs in. SV Reverse angle woman plugging in. Takes hand away showing telephone in car. SV Woman takes receiver from clip and dials. SV Woman talking into telephone, hands telephone to woman passenger in car. SV Dial on dashboard of car. Receiver being replaced. SV Hand pulls out plug at roadside point. LV Car drives away. <br/> <br/>Possibly connected with 49/8 - MD.

PRESIDENT OF N.Y. TELEPHONE MR. MCHUGH DISCUSSES INFLATION & TELEPHONE RATES. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION DOESN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE VALUE OF PROPERTY THAT THE TELEPHONE COMPANY USES AS PUBLIC UTILITY. RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN HOME. OLDER COUPLE ON PORCH DISCUSS THE BUILDING OF THEIR NEW HOME. DRINKING ICED TEA. BRICK BUILDING FACTORY PLANT. TALKS TO INSURANCE AGENT. SHOWS HOW PROPERTY VALUE GOES UP AS TIME GOES ON. THINGS WORTH MORE NOW THAN THEY ORIGINALLY DID. N.Y. TELEPHONE CENTRAL OFFICE BUILDING IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK. VALUE SHOULD BE MORE THAN IT COSTS. HOLDS UP CHART TO REPRESENT INCREASED TELEPHONE RATES. POWER PLANT WITH SMOKE STACKS. STRINGING TELEPHONE LINES, WORKER ATTACHING THOUSANDS OF WIRES. SAUCONY-MOBILE BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY. SKYSCRAPER. INSTALLING TELEPHONE SERVICE IN NEW BUILDING, NEXT TO CHRYSLER BUILDING. LONG ISLAND RAILROAD STATION. TRAIN ARRIVES. MEN CHECKING TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT. SUBWAY TRAIN COMES OUT OF TUNNEL. NETWORK OF WIRES. HOUSEWIFE ON PHONE COMPLAINS ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO GET DIAL TONE. OUT OF SERVICE. HUSBAND COMPLAINS. BUSINESSMAN CALLS TO SECRETARY & ASKS WHERE HIS PHONE CALL IS. SHE SAYS SERVICE CAN'T BE GUARANTEED FOR SEVERAL HOURS. GROUP OUTSIDE TELEPHONE BUILDING COMPLAIN ABOUT SIGN THAT SAYS NO SERVICE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PHONE REPAIRMAN REPAIRS WALL PHONE. SWITCHBOARD OPERATORS. BEDROOM TELEPHONE. CU HOUSEWIFE DIALS PHONE. BELL TELEPHONE LOGO. TELEPHONE COMPANY UNHAPPY ABOUT GOVERNMENT RULING ON VALUE OF TELEPHONE COMPANY PROPERTY & HOW MUCH THEY ARE ALLOWED TO CHARGE FOR SERVICE. CLAIMS TO BE LOSING MONEY

b&w silent documentary - 1920s - telephone history from its invention to 1920s - Bell System - telephones - communication - graph demonstrating growth in the number of telephones over the years - telephone poles - telephone wires - inventions - technology - men laying a deep sea telephone cable that stretched between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba - underwater - spooling cable - tugging - pony express - man on the telephone at a desk - female switchboard operators - switchboards - man picks up telephone receiver - superimposed image of men talking to each other through the telephone - different time on clocks in background - comparing old forms of communication technology to the ease of the telephone - signal beaming out from earth - towers - tower

HACUs of man on telephone in headquarters, of man writing, of hands of telephone operator making connections.

A handset lies off the hook of its accompanying telephone.

Touch-O-Matic

Telephone. CU of telephones. CU of cell phone. Man walking and talking on cell phone. Man talking on cell phone. Telephones. Man answering phone. Man being interviewed. Telephone. CU of cell phone and pager. CU of telephone. Man being interviewed.

People waiting in hospital waiting room.

1960s: Telephone poles line road near homes and trees.

Documentary titled 'A Prophecy Fulfilled', on the construction of telephone lines and growth of the telephone system. Views of serveral very early telephone models and telephone switchboard systems. Men talk on a primitive telephone system in United States. Scene of a chaotic telephone switchboard operator room staffed by teenage boys or young men. Pictorial view of telephone poles and lines. Picture of Alexander Graham Bell and his prophecy. Telephone poles and lines scattered across a country side. Location: United States USA. Date: 1928.

New Skyways For The Telephone. A film about long distance telephone calls in 1951. telephone, operator

During Korean War, US Army Signal Corps in action as US forces fight Communist forces in South Korea

Full Concert (Not Logged)

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the possibility of a Southwestern Bell telephone operators strike. Includes footage of telephone operators at work and an interview with an unidentified man who details the procedure if a strike were to occur.

09:00:21:04 MS of unid man working as a telephone operator / VS of telephone operator station; transforing calls; using a rotary dial telephone / CU of unid man at telephone operator station (6:49) /

ORIG. COLOR 450 FT. SOF / MAG. TELEPHONE CO. EMPLOYEES PICKETING IN FRONT OF TELEPHONE BUILDING. SHOT OF LARGE, COMPUTER TYPE MACHINE, LIGHTS FLASHING, PLENTY OF BUTTONS & SWITCHES. PAN ACROSS TELEPHONE SWITCH BOARD. SIX TELEPHONE BOOTHS, ALL BEING USED. SINGLE BOOTH BEING USED, 2 PEOPLE WAITING FOR IT. VO BRANNIGAN. SU BRANNIGAN. MORE OF PICKETERS. SIGN: NY TELEPHONE COMPANY. 210 WASHINGTON ST. PEOPLE ENTERING BUILDING AS PICKETERS SHOUT AT THEM. PICKETERS YELLING "GO TO HELL, MA BELL". MAN WORKING COMPUTER. CU COMPUTER. SU BRANNIGAN. MORE OF PEOPLE OPERATING SWITCH BOARD. PEOPLE USING TELEPHONE BOOTHS. CI: LABOR: STRIKES: TELEPHONE. MACHINES: COMPUTERS. BLDGS: PHONE BOOTH. OCCUPATIONS: SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR.

1960s: Telephone poles line road near homes and trees.

Pictures show laying of underground telephone cables using a railroad car. Hand shows primitive telephone cables. A modern '1212 Pairs 2424 Wires' type of telephone cable. Man work on underground telephone cables. Men near a manhole lay underground telephone cable. A network of underground telephone lines. Man in switchboard office connects various telephone lines. Location: United States USA. Date: 1928.

A Bell Telephone film about telephone courtesy from the 1950s

Various shots of operators at work, speaking on telephone, writing reports. CUs of report being written. Shot of brakeman through barred wicket, PAN from man to rest of office, operator writing message, taking it to other brakeman visible through other barred wicket in background. Shots of men talking on telephone, ringing telephones, stretched in bed reading, speaking on telephone, in brief, telephoning.

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