This DVD has some of the best classic telegraph history videos produced in the 20th century. Telephone and Telegraph and Telegram for America are two of the premiere telegraph, telegrams and history of communication films produced in the post WWII era. Both vintage movies, preserved on DVD, provide educational content deep in telegraph machine content and high on beautiful telegraph, telegram and telegraphy visuals. This is a must-have for communication history collectors and a fantastic introduction for anyone interested in discovering the answers to any of these questions:How does a telegraph work? What is the history of the telegraph? What is the history of mass communication technology? Get this special DVD collection today to see invaluable historic documentation of telegraph history, the telegraph machine and telegrams.
Included Films:
Telephone and Telegraph
Telephone and Telegraph
Produced: 1946
Length: 10 Minutes
An amazing vintage film that illuminates the history of communications, Telephone and Telegraph is a phenomenal historical experience. As the film reveals, telegraph jobs were similar to those in the growing telecommunications field of the 1940s. There is stock footage of a late 19th century Western Union office and a Bell telephone, as well as a lot of great video of analog equipment. Most interestingly, the film also reveals the gender roles of the era when it divides the available telecommunications jobs up by sex, saying that some jobs just werent open to girls. Men were encouraged to get a college degree, which would help them in their careers as engineers, couriers, executives, installers and others. Women, on the other hand, are told that they could work as operators, clerks, or secretaries. This vintage film illuminates the history of telecommunications like no other!
Telegram for America
Telegram for America
Produced: 1956
Length: 20 Minutes
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 1950s 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 1950s telegraph industry.
