| News in Brief: Teen Telephone Company. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1630 |
| Catalog #: | 354780 | |
| Clip Number: | 354780-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 030-035-04 | |
| Timecode: | 00:51:21 - 00:52:07 | |
| Location: | El Cerrito, California | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/TEENAGERS: Skills AGE GROUP/TEENAGERS: Working COMMUNICATIONS: Telephone LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California | |
| Description: | Same as Catalog # 515318. News in Brief: Teen Telephone Company. Teen-age telephone co., in El Cerrito, California, with 28 subscribers and 2 exchanges - built and operated on their own by 5 young businessman-engineers, testifies to youthful industry and enterprise. Young teenage geeks (well, they're engineers!) work on a device related to their phone service. Boy at top of tree, apparently stringing telephone wire. Teen boy demonstrates that the contraption works; he dials on a rotary telephone and the mechanical parts (on their control panel thingee) move around. CU rotary phone; teenage girl answers it, smiles. | |


