The Compulsive Communication

Complete catalog record
Narrated by Richard Attenborough
Wrestling Match (old folks at ringside)
crowds
people (all cultures)
CU shots of crowds
chopping a path in the wood
tribes people talk to anthropologists
freaky tribes people
tribesman (speaks with hands)
Jungle tribesmen with spears
hunt, fish, smoke
Middle Easterners harvest wheat by hand
ancient writings on rocks symbols
Japanese sumi ink
Man with colorful DNA model
DNA model - fades to mud, clouds, undersea life (VG color) turtles, buffalo, tigers, monkeys, salamander, zebras, dove flies, turtle, Human baby breast feeding
kids play
kids make pottery
kids at school
students at big telescope
setting press metal type
newspapers roll off printing
press
man in library
CU IBM selective typewriter
electronic
circuitry - good shot
maps, control rooms
old data ticker tape
teletype machine
CU telephone switchboard operators plugging in cable
computer data wheels
paper plans for auto Chan’s
rocket blasts off (wide shot)
slide stills - space
space / earth simulation shots
wide shot / wide angle of tree and branches
narrator sits and talks under tree

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, catalog record