Communication Primer

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Pyramid Films

Complete Record: Explores many kinds of communication--verbal, written, graphical, mechanical, and others--and relates them all to a basic schematic of how communication takes place. Introduces the concepts of noise and redundancy, which can degrade or enhance the receiving of a message. Dictionary, white letters on black, “communication”. Telephone wires. Phone system diagrams, animated. Asterisks flying around. Works on page unblurring. Man’s eye. Broken plate. Flipping pages in a book. Flashing lights. Lightening, flipping pictures of a girl. Overhead view of hands typing. Pictures of phone booth like objects with flickering numbers. More communications diagram. Words mixing up. Telegraph. Political cartoon. Stock boards. Ticker tape. Close up of type writer working. Depictions of people speaking. Brain diagram. heart/ Grasses, words, ears. “I love you” montage. Representations of love. Telegraph diagram. Colorful symbols. Musical notation. Monet painting. Triangle art. picture of people looking away. Rosetta stone, old written characters. Fireworks. Paul Revere. Stars. Waves. Flock of seagulls. People walking in the streets. Totem pole. Art of various cultures, flags. CBS eye. Radar dish. Telegraphs and signal representations. Colored dots close ups. Panel of numbers. Music box. Braille. Sheets of numbers. Scantrons. Strips of dots. Globe. People enjoying the beach. Colorful blocks. Mosaic. Seurat, la grande jatte. Airplane instrumentation. Brush on paper.