Moving Image:Far Speaking

Far Speaking is a short film from ca. 1935 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

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.

Far Speaking
Produced by	Unknown
Production company	Unknown
Distributed by	Unknown
Release date	ca. 1935
Running time	10:31
Language	English

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