The Far Sound (incomplete)

Duration: 9:00

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Bell Systems

Complete Record: Alexander Graham Bell dramatization, great 60 ‘ s animation. Explanation of the telephone, vacuum tube , amplifiers , newspaper headline of transcontinental phone line , business meeting acted out , telephone carrier system , map of USA with phone line across, dates 1917 - 1927 transcend then fade on screen, Harold Black , reversing distortion , negative feedback amplifier, creation of copper tube and coaxial cable from animation to reel, B/W television camera shot, Pan shot of transmission tower from base to top, radio wave animation , antennas , snowflakes , wave guides , stationary man on screen ( excellent ) , multiple lines , switchboard operators , automatic switchboard , blinking lights , man dialing a phone , switchboard factory , WS of brown warehouse building, businessman referring to chalkboard , scientist talking behind beakers , CU switchboard, letter X in a square with a “?” , shadow and hand pour powder and syrup into petri dishes , hand holds chunk of geranium, experiment with magnets bubbling brown liquid , wavelengths , CU of wavelengths , Walter Bratten , William Shockley , John Berdeen receiving Nobel Prize for transistors ( B/W ) woman puts on glasses and smile , satellite transmitter spinning , B/W movie set , B/W man puts needle on a record , early forms of telephony video conferencing , buzz bombs ( B/W ) missiles fired , missiles collisions in sky , [woman wears mannequin head on top of her own, man in sound booth throws switch - this section removed for Sonic Oddities] , early form of pager - call forwarding , optical laser demo , early tv conferencing, shopping for beef over the phone , satellite echo , animation of map and satellite , man moves strobe light over satellite dish , man looks through high powered magnifying glass m . g . view of atoms , man stares at glowing experiment , man places molecules model on table .