| New Cable Takes Voice Across Sea | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1622 |
| Catalog #: | 354338 | |
| Clip Number: | 354338-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 029-078-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:40:37 - 00:41:40 | |
| Location: | New York, New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Communications, Telephone & Telegraph LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York OCCUPATIONS: Engineer | |
| Description: | The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable is completed, a 2,000 mile strand of heavily armored wire that will for the first time carry voice signals from hemisphere to hemisphere. The $45,000,000 project is the fruition of path finding engineering research. Establishing shot - A map showing New York, the ocean, London. MS - Men working off a conveyor belt with electronics to help boost fading voices. CUS - Hands putting a coupling together. MCU - A machine twisting the cable that will cross under the sea to London. POV - Back end of the cable ship laying down cable. CUS - A technician making the final splice on the cable. MCUS - Two technicians watching a huge electronic or early computer machine. The cost at this time in 1956 is $12.00 for three minutes. | |
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