Making Conversation
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Unfortunately, this film has a printing defect of some kind where it seems the yellow strip of the three-strip technicolor process was drifting in and out of focus. I thought Technicolor would have had better quality control!
Western Electric was an engineering/manufacturing arm of the Bell Telephone System for AT&T. See the astounding web of switchboard systems, onto the factory production line of the telephone shown in a variety of colors. And of course, it's the famous 'Model 500'.
I found reference to the film being shot in 1957, in a Sandia Labs newspaper.
https://archive.org/details/C166_Lab_News_03-22-57/mode/2up?q=%22Making+Conversation%22
I improved it as I could, but there wasn't too much that could be done.
Film also had some basically glued-on dirt, I gave a lot of cleaning passes but there was still a decent amount. Lightly applied digital dirt/scratch removal, there's probably a stray artifact here or there I didn't catch.
Also lightly corrected color.
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Western Electric was an engineering/manufacturing arm of the Bell Telephone System for AT&T. See the astounding web of switchboard systems, onto the factory production line of the telephone shown in a variety of colors. And of course, it's the famous 'Model 500'.
I found reference to the film being shot in 1957, in a Sandia Labs newspaper.
https://archive.org/details/C166_Lab_News_03-22-57/mode/2up?q=%22Making+Conversation%22
I improved it as I could, but there wasn't too much that could be done.
Film also had some basically glued-on dirt, I gave a lot of cleaning passes but there was still a decent amount. Lightly applied digital dirt/scratch removal, there's probably a stray artifact here or there I didn't catch.
Also lightly corrected color.
*Please reach out regarding commercial usage/licensing of scan*
Complete catalog record
Source: BellTel
Interest level: jh-sh-ad
Price: free-loan
Format: sd color
Interest level: jh-sh-ad
Price: free-loan
Format: sd color
Sources
- YouTube channel: 16mm Time Machine · video ↗ — title, description, video
- Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
Record added 2026-06-21 18:52:22