Communications.

Duration: 2 reels

Year Published: 1947

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the development of communication from ancient times to the present. The drums, the signal fires, and the rapid carriage post of the past are succeeded by the telegraph, the telephone, the wireless, and the radio telephone of the present.

Complete Record: COMMUNICATIONS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1947. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. (Our Land and People series) Summary: Traces the development of communication from ancient times to the present. The drums, the signal fires, and the rapid carriage post of the past are succeeded by the telegraph, the telephone, the wireless, and the radio telephone of the present. Credits: Producers, Edmund Reek, Boris Vermount; script, Robert M. Hertzberg; narrator, Nelson Case; collaborators, Walter A. Anderson, Eric H. Haight, John E. Ivey, Gordon N. McKenzie, Robert Lee Morton, Samuel R. Powers, Howard E. Wilson, George L. White, J. Wallace Page, Jr., Miller McClintock; music, L. DeFrancesco; editors, John Oser, Robert Duffus. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 12Nov47; MP2802.