| POSTAL AUTOMATION New inventions of the Post Office Research Department: letter | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6008 |
| Catalog #: | 489227 | |
| Clip Number: | 489227-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 92 | |
| Timecode: | 01:46:50 - 01:49:01 | |
| Location: | Great Britain, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INVENTIONS: Automation INVENTIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London MAIL: Post Offices MAIL: Unusual | |
| Description: | COLOUR PICTORIALS New letter sorting machine in use at post office. Postal worker still has to decide where the letters go but no longer has to walk back and forth putting them in the slots. London CU letters in basket; man's hands take a bunch of them. MS man carries letters over to a machine beside a wall of mail slots; he loads them into machine. MS he then sits down at machine and pushes buttons as he looks at letters dropping through machine behind glass window; the button pressing is to route the letters. CU pushing buttons. CUs letters dropping through machine. CU letters slide along rollers and are dropped into the correct slot. CU man pushing buttons. "Esme" - -a synthetic speech-making machine made by the British Post Office's research dept. (Speech Synthesizing Machine) MS a young woman stands at another machine; man comes over and is apparently training her on the machine. CUs of machine - -a modern looking thing the controls of which look like 2 joysticks. This is an early attempt at a voice simulation machine. The man demonstrates the machine - -somehow using these 2 joystick things he is able to make the machine make sounds that are pretty weird but generally intelligible. Well, vaguely intelligible, anyway. Narrator says this research into synthesinig vocal sounds could simplify long-distance telephone communications. | |
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