Product Details

• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Quality Information Publishers, Inc.
• Run Time: 20 minutes
• ASIN: B002VYVMLO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,829 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Telegram for America is a promotional documentary for the Western Union Telegraph Company that shows how the telegraph helped shape Western Expansion, played a pivotal role in the financial markets, and helped develop new communications technology. The film has great scenes of 1950's era teletype, teleprinter, and telegraph equipment. Scenes of business people, workers, and Western Union plants and microwave towers abound. The new technology featured includes facsimile machines and a mobile reception center called the Telmobile. An enriching historical film, Telegram for America includes countless valuable shots of the booming 1950's telegraph industry.