Reel
News in Brief: Teen Telephone Company.
Clip#:
Audio:
354780_1_1
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1957
B/W
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.