Скачать или смотреть The Voice Beneath the Sea (1956, sound)

Description: "Traces the establishment of the first telephone cable link beneath the Atlantic Ocean from North America to the British Isles and Europe. Scenes of the plants where the cable was manufactured and of the cable-laying ship on the high seas are combined with animated sequences explaining voice carrier, coaxial cable, radio relay, etc." (Educational Film Guide, 1954-1958)

This is a short version of the full film, which runs 27 minutes.

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Subjects: 1950s, Infrastructure, Communication, Technology

Tags: animation; telephones; radio relay systems; underwater cables; repeaters; amplifiers; women's labor; women working in manufacturing; uniformed women workers; copper coils; factories; microscopes; workers; ships; Bell System executives; switchboard operators; Transatlantic telephone cable; Western Electric; narration; maps; oceans; intercontinental cables; cable termination; pulling cable from sea; telephone operators; telephone engineers; testboard engineers; international cooperation; AT&T Long Lines; telephony

Film Sponsor: Bell Telephone Company and American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Creator: John Sutherland Productions

Credits: Program presented by: The Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Company and Citizens Telephone Company
Presented by American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Long Lines Department
Cinematography: John Wiles, Gerald Hirschfeld, Harry Burrell
Film Editor: Walter Stern, A.C.E.
Assistant Director: Harold N. Herman
Music: Eugene Poddany
Narration: Bob Garred
Written and Directed by True Boardman
Produced by John Sutherland



Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1956

Geographical Location: USA; Canada; Scotland; Newfoundland, Canada; Oban, Scotland; Clarenville, Newfoundland

Genre/Form: sponsored

Language: eng

Rights: Not registered for copyright 1950-59. No copyright notice seen on print.

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: color

Color Process: Eastman Color

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 513