The Telephone and the Farmer

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Rural Electrification Administration

Complete Record: Rural farm setting surrounded by fences, red barns and country roads. Woman talks to telephone company man about getting telephone service, and decides not to get it. Winter in the country and man collapses while shoveling snow. Wife tries to drive to town on tractor thrown deep snow it doesn’t work. She walks to a neighbors house and uses a telephone. The snow plows clear the road ad she gets a ride into town to talk to the doctor. The town in general decides to modernize with a new telephone system. Farmers meet for a meeting on telephones. Shows telephone polls being drilled into the ground. There’s a town celebration for the new phones. Visual gag: Man in suit points to globe to explain telephone networks. Shows women taking her clothes down from the clothesline because of the snow. Sponsored by REA Rural Electrification System