USA - 1916 - In this silent comedy a woman calls an insane asylum to come take away her husband, not realizing he is actually someone else who legitimately doesn't recognize her.
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USA - 1976 - A salesman explains the lengthy process required to handle a credit card transaction in order to ensure it is not fraudulent.
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USA - 1940s - Women work as switchboard operators.
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UNITED STATES - 1972 - A cartoon moon answers a call from President Nixon. A girl watches a parade of colorful characters and animals with her cat.
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USA - 1935 - In this silent film, an African-American woman prays for employment and gets a job as a maid, allowing her to take care of her young daughter.
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1917 - President Wilson speaks on the phone and does paperwork in the White House.
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1942 - Telegrams and telephones are used in daily life in America, for business and personal use.
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1942 - Animation is used to show how Alexander Graham Bell's telephone operated in 1876.
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1944 - In this comedy film, a woman thinks her baby has been kidnapped and calls the police.
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1944 - In this comedy film, a woman sends a telegram to her husband letting him know she wants to come visit him on his business trip. Her nursemaid is skeptical about the idea.
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1940s - Nazi soldiers work at the communications center of an underground bunker.
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1930s - Father Coughlin talks on the phone and reads correspondence.
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USA - 1968 - In this animated film, communications satellites help improve phone service around the world.
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1944 - In this animated film, Private Snafu's girlfriend gossips on the phone about sensitive military information he sent her, allowing Japanese forces to ambush the Americans. Snafu realizes it was all a bad dream and learns to censor his letters.
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USA - 1959 - Printing presses, telephones, and radios of the modern world are favorably compared to those of the past.
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USA - 1959 - A motorcycle cop receives important communications through his dispatch radio while a firehouse receives phone calls directly from people in danger.
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USA - 1974 - A montage of ways technological advancements have kept people from getting the regular physical activity their ancestors did.
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1962 - In this animated film, a donkey and rooster dance the flamenco on stage until an angry call to the conductor insists on a change in music.
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USA - 1953 - In this animated film, James W. Marshall discovers gold in 1848 California before its promptly taken away by an IRS agent and Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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USA - 1943 - A doctor relays treatment information for a tuberculosis to a public health nurse who will make a house call.
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USA - 1913 - In this silent drama, a human trafficker calls one of the women he's exploited to bring him some cash.
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UNITED STATES - 1957 - A man rushes on the street, chasing a taxi driving away. Bystanders phone an ambulance after the man suffers a heart attack.
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USA - 1933 - In this animated film, two firemen get woken up by a call at the station, and hurry to get their horse-drawn engine ready to go.
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1916 - French soldiers fire an artillery gun from a ship on the Yser river.
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1916 - In this silent comedy, a man calls the fire station but a fireman (Charlie Chaplin) mutes the alarm to focus on his checkers game.
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1916 - In this silent comedy, a fireman (Charlie Chaplin) tries to answer an emergency call but has trouble with the phone.
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1918 - In this silent comedy, a woman's father eavesdrops on her phone call with her boyfriend after she's shooed him out of the house.
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1973 - Boards are used to help USAF airmen track flights through Lod Airport.
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1912 - In this silent film, a detective gets a call to come to the station to help with a case, so he kisses his wife and daughter goodbye.
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1937 - A member of FDR's cabinet makes phone calls and goes over a mounted map in his office.
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1959 - In this horror film, a woman arms herself with a gun and calls the police when she finds a prowler in the house.
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1930s - Father Coughlin talks on the phone and reads correspondence.
WASHINGTON DC - 1970 - USAF, Army, Navy and Air Force officers use phones in the Washington-Moscow Hotline office.
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1936 - Photographs are transmitted over the telephone with a dazzling invention (narrated in 1961).
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WASHINGTON DC - 1970 - The deputy director operations chief of the National Military Command Center's Washington-Moscow hotline office works at his desk.
WASHINGTON DC - 1970 - A soldier takes calls and transmits information onto a central electronic control board located the National Military Command Center's Current Actions Room.
1936 - In this animated film, Betty Boop calls Grampy for help, and he uses an elaborate sequence of inventions to come to her side.
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QUEBEC - 1950 - The supervisor of an electric substation network in Quebec gets a phone call about a shortage.
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USA - 1931 - In this comedy, a psychiatrist calls an insane asylum to come take away a strange woman cozying up to a bear skin rug.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater is toured around the communications room of the Strategic Air Command HQ.
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1934 - Strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff prepares to address laborers on strike.
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1940s - A WQXR radio station manager and announcer prepare for a broadcast.
PACIFIC OCEAN - 1968 - The recovered Apollo 8 astronauts conclude a phone call with LBJ and are interviewed about it by personnel on the USS Yorktown.
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1945 - American war correspondents use telephones and typewriters to convey the news of Philippe Petain's trial for treason.