Video URL


13171_17229_telephone_system10
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1950s
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Phone company advertising superiority because of the backing of AT&T, Western Electric, and Bell Laboratory; often overdone to comic affect. Two phone company men discuss at a desk people need to know this. VO explains over shots the details of the company backing. Busy city street; pans up tall building. Map of US divided into phone communication districts; AT&T connects districts, Bell connects individual lines. Shots of country towns, sea, boat on sea, broadcaster adjusting TV. Shot Western Electric builiding.