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The World’s Telephone Workshop 221618-01 | Footage Farm

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The World’s Telephone Workshop
Produced by Western Electric for American Telephone & Telegraph
00:26  Title:  “As one of the chief factors in making this country a nation of neighbors, the telephone...”
Alexander Graham Bell at plaque unveiling on site of laboratory during anniversary celebration, tips hat to applause.
01:30  Title:  “Early telephone experience proved the need for equipment of uniform design...”
Western Electric original Kinzie Street building, Chicago, Illinois.  Illustration of large manufacturing complex.  
02:44  High angle of large power plant; int. of turbines; men beside.
03:25  High angle pan over mass of workers / employees in park posing.
04:50  High angle over large office w/ women working at desks.
05:10  MS man moving parts under pressure machine; others assembling; LS of machine shop, men at benches.  Men at other machines, feeding & moving parts.  Woman working w/ microscope at work bench.  
06:24  CU soldering filaments.  Punch press & man feeding metal strip & knocking out parts from die.  CU woman assembling parts; weighing on balance scale.  Young man assembling parts of ear piece.
08:28  Title:  “Speed & accuracy are gained by specialization.”  High angle of large room w/ woman at assembly cubicles.  CU hands working assembling w/ parts from bin.
09:27  Title:  “Experience makes for skill in assembling the 229 parts of a telephone.”  MS woman assembling w/ various screw driver tools.
10:27  Title:  “No perfection without inspection.”  Women at inspection stations inspecting parts.
11:12  Pixillated / stop motion animation of various pieces of a telephone.
16:14  Title:  “It took the cameraman two busy weeks to do that trick - while the works were turning out over 50,000 real telephones.  The End.

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