| GPO TRAINING Telephone Company's New Inventions | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5028 |
| Catalog #: | 364788 | |
| Clip Number: | 364788-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 68/59 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Bletchley, Buckinghamshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1968 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INVENTIONS: Construction | |
| Description: | GPO TRAINING (aka NEW EQUIPMENT FOR GPO LINESMEN) Sort of comic segment about telephone company's new equipment. General Post Office workers show off new equipment to help them in their job Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. C/U line of GPO workers looking like soldiers carrying plug firing guns. M/S as they advance towards camera. C/U worker with gun, he kneels down to a batten on the wall and fires the gun into it. Various shots guns firing into battens. C/U of the batten showing the pin fired from the gun. C/U gun being loaded with a large stapling nail, pan down gun to show cartridge going into gun. M/S of another worker firing a different type of gun which puts plug into the wall. C/U of the metal plug. M/S of a modern type of mechanical trench digger in operation. C/U trench digger in the earth. M/S men operating machine called 'The Mole' which digs, lays cable and fills in the trench in one operation. C/U of the cable being drawn through into ground. M/S of the men operating the machine, pan to man on the tractor which winches the cable through the ground. M/S of telegraph pole digging machine. M/S pole digging machine. C/U a large drill. C/U man operating machine. M/S machine showing telegraph pole about to be lowered into hole. C/U pole going into ground. M/S telegraph pole in the ground. M/S mini telegraph pole used for training. Various shots line of poles showing men fixing insulators. C/U Post Office workers working on insulators on telegraph pole. | |
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