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{{Filmjr |title=Far Speaking |embid=0736_Far_Speaking_01_29_06_00 |embsv=archiveorg  |desc=telephone company film about history;
historical recreation (1877) of the use of one of the earliest telephones in an Eastern  town.
1885 - Long Distance Begins -- Maps with blinking lights show how cities across the countries became hooked into the telephone network.
introduction of a variety of telephone equipment -- loaded coils, vacuum tubes used as amplifiers or repeaters; 
many varieties of vacuum tubes shown; 
1915 -- The continent spanned with first transcontinental call; historic telephone calls across the continent and overseas between U.S. and foreign presidents noted; 
globes shown with tracings of various telephone networks indicated; 
shots: domestic servant in maid's outfit; answers phone,  

  4:47:02- 5:03:07
Great shot of a repeater station where telephone vacuums are stored. There's a V-shaped wipe to telephone polls. The telephone polls are in the middle of the V, and we see the sides of the repeater station to the sides of it.

  7:44:50- 7:51:30
Beautiful black and white graphics over an old globe. The globe spins, and white lightning-shaped lines come out of the U.S. and extend east. "1935" comes over the globe at the end of the clip. Early virtual landscape.
 |forma=16mm |year=ca. 1935 |up=|next=|prev=|step= |lang=English |pbrs=Unknown |heldby=PA |len=10:31 |link= |bw= |ani= |ewid= }}