Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: The Historical Archive
• Run Time: 53 minutes
• ASIN: B000NKL8Z8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,484 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This DVD contains a variety of 20's to 50's films dealing with telegram and telegraph use and technology (with a little phone technology thrown in.) It also includes a rare newsreel of a US Navy graduating morse code class. It is a great look at the history and evolution of the telegram and Western Union's role in spreading this communications mechanism throughout the United States and beyond and shows the inside operations and the staff that keeps the systems running smoothly. Here are all the films that make up this historical collection: Telephone and Telegraph (1946) - Sound, Black & White Run time: 10:32; Telegram for America (ca. 1956) - Sound, Black & White Run time: 19:30; Communication: A Film Lesson in General Science / Development of Communication (1927) - Silent, Black & White Run time: 13:04; Big Da-Dit-Da Class Graduated At New Naval Radio School, 1941/03/06 - sound, Black & White; When You Know (1936) - Sound, Black & White Run time: 8:31