Communications
LANGUAGE OF STAMPS Film demonstrating how stamps can be used to send affectionate messages.
DEAF AND DUMB WEDDING A Deaf and Dumb Couple Get Married at Beverley Minster
IS YOUR PHONE TAPPED Debate on how far phone tapping can go.
HELLO GIRLS OF CHINATOWN Chinatown Telephone Exchange
Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Big Media Consolidation
NEW CABLE SHIP CABLE ENTERPRISE IN LONDON New cable ship Cable Enterprise in the Pool of London.
THE TELE SKATER GIRLS Telephone Workers on Roller Skates
PRINTED CIRCUITS UK Printed circuits are made by machine and hand in a factory.
IS YOUR PHONE TAPPED Debate on how far phone tapping can go.
Mr. Bell - PT4 - Alexander Graham Bell
Calcutta, Please Pick Up - India Call Center
NEW SOUTH AMERICAN TRACKING STATION OPENED
GIRL ON THE LINE Woman Telephone Line Worker
SEEING BY WIRELESS Wireless technology is used to send photographs across the Atlantic in minutes!
GOONHILLY EARTH STATION official opening of the Goonhilly satellite and communications centre
US ARMY RECRUITING America Provides Good Training for Its New Recruits
SEA CADETS Sea cadets are put through their paces on a training ship.
WHATS IN A NAME Item traces the origin of some popular names and their meanings.
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
CHINESE PUZZLES Chinese writing is translated
WRITING COMPETITION Japanese Kids' Calligraphy Contest
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
WORDS (aka FIGURES OF SPEECH) A look at the origin of certain words and figures of speech.
Treasury Dept Agents Infiltrate Syndicates
CPL FULLER VC HOME IN MANSFIELD Cpl Fuller demonstrating field phone.
NEW TELESCOPE Anthony Crosland opens the new radio telescope
AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPH EXCHANGE Engineers at consoles inside the GPO Telegraph building.
NAZI SPIES RADIO SET Nazi spies captured with a radio set - and executed.
ST. KILDA WEATHER STATION Telex Machine & Telephone Switchboard
US PHONE STRIKE Good footage of demonstrators during US phone strike in San Francisco.
Trailer: KEEP YOUR TALKS SHORT asking public to minimise telephone use.
U.S. Army Communications, 1930s
Calcutta, Please Pick Up - India Call Center
Calcutta, Please Pick Up - India Call Center
News in Brief: Teen Telephone Company.
Navy's Satellite: Vanguard Fails In Second Launching
TEMPLE OF HEAVEN – Water Caligrapher
Radio Antennas and Radar Dishes
POLICE A look at the new emergency telephone boxes with a direct line to the police in South Africa.
Presses Roll NY Has Newpapers After Long Strike
Kennedy On Telstar: Europe Sees News Conference
THE MAST MASTERS Old radio masts are knocked to the ground
TELEPRINTER A telegram is typed on a teleprinter machine in London, and is printed out in Edinburgh.
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
Ion Propelled Aircraft - The Ionocraft
No Life on Mars: Mariner IV Photos Show Barren Planet
Satellite Station: Canadian Radome Joins World Circuit
Telephone co., linemen - climbing up & on top...
Women in Office Answering Phones
LINGUIST Linguist Shows Ancient Writing Systems
3rd Vanguard Successful Moon Launched
Vanguard Fired: Good Try-But No Orbit
New Moon: Reds Launch First Space Satellite
EVE'S WIRELESS Women Use Portable Radio Phone
PICTURES BY AIR Fax Machines at Work and Home
THE LANGUAGE OF A FAN) Antique Fans & their Use in Body Language
Eavesdropping Gossip on the Party Line
Men talking on telephone smoking w/ pipe
Telephone lineman in snow in winter
Hospital Pocket Sized Walkie-talkies
Civil Defense: US Cities Gird For Atomic Bomb Attack
Jungle Radio: 'Copters Help Build Tower In Vietnam
Workers in Field Making/Laying Wire (?), 1920s
Typewriter's 100th Anniversary
Largest Radio Transmitter Is Dedicated
Spy Satellite Explodes On Launch
"Moon" Is Born: The Story Of "Project Vanguard"
First In Space: Twin Satellites In Single Launching
A Day In History : Telstar Brings World Closer
Twenty Five Years Ago - Telstar Satellite
Russians Show Sputnik III, Industrial Show
Secretary Of State Herbert Hoover Jr. Arrives In Berlin
Telephone Exchange (Joan Miller)
VIDEOPHONE TV Telephone - Viewphone
Alexander Graham Bell Re-Creation
THE MICRO RAY A micro-ray receiver (or similar) is placed on top of the building and demonstrated.
RADIO TAXIS In Cambridge, taxis give instructions over radio where to collect the customers.
YOU ARE WANTED ON THE TELEPHONE! Motorcycles with telephone shaped sidecars are
AIRDROP Footage of Dakota aircraft dropping supplies for soldiers.
FIRST BRITISH SATELLITE LAUNCH
THE RADIO PATROL Morse code messages are sent to a police car when a woman is mugged
LISTENING TO THE STARS The giant new British radio-telescope under construction at Jodrell Bank.
CINEVIEWS IN BRIEF (NO. 69) Footage of a tiny radio set, a violin and a book.
CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 92) A cellophane balloon which records information from the sky
STUDY THEIR HANDWRITING Ivan Silva tells us how personality can be read through handwriting.
ON THE WATCH Good footage of the Home Defence Organisation keeping watch on coastal areas.
MORSE MACHINE New machine invented in Italy transmits Morse characters through a lens.
POST EARLY TRAILER A trailer encourages the British public to post early for Christmas.
TYPING TOURNAMENT TAP-TAP TOURNAMENT Margaret Hammer wins a typing tournament in Chicago, America.
THE TOUCH OF SIGHT How Braille documents are produced for blind readers in Vienna.
WIRELESS MAST FELLED Tall wooden structure falls down at Kidbrooke.
THE BOYS OF THE NEW BRIGADE Cadets at Pangbourne Nautical College are seen in training.
PLANE SAFETY Airplane flying by radio location finding - early radar?
THE NEW 5XX Shot of communications tower at new wireless broadcasting station in Daventry.
NEW SUPER CABLE Telegraph cable from American is dragged ashore at Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
4 EXCHANGES IN ONE! Sir Kingsley Wood, the Postmaster General, opens new telepho
TO BLAZES WITH WALKIE TALKIE Short wave radio is used by firemen on emergency calls.
NEWS IN FLASHES - RADIOS FOR MOTORCYCLE POLICE
RADIO BUSES Radio communication enables buses to be sent quickly to queuing passengers.
COCKNEY SLANG Joe Noble's cartoons explain various phrases from cockney rhyming slang.
CEASE FIRE IN SYRIA A cease fire is negotiated and fighting comes to an end in Syria.
G.P.O'S RESEARCH STATION Ramsay MacDonald opens Post Office telephone research station in London.
DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT TRACKING STATION
SPEEDING UP New team of young men set up to deliver telegrams on motorcycles.
CHEAPER TELEPHONES! Postmaster General Sir Kingsley Wood shows off a new system for telephones.
SHE SPEAKS 12 LANGUAGES Rumanian woman demonstrates her language skills.
TV DETECTOR VANS New TV detector vans to seek out licence dodgers.
ISLAND DOCTOR Fires are lit on Bardsey Island to send messages to mainland.
RADIO BABY SITTER Nice item about how neighbour can baby sit from own home with help of radio.
TV SCREEN LINKED TO DOORBELL new TV security system linked to doorbell of flats.
WALKIE-TALKIE USED BY FIREMEN A new walkie-talkie radio set is demonstrated by firemen.
HONG KONG SCHOOLCHILDREN Hong Kong school children playing and studying.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - ERECTING INTERNATIONAL RADIO MASTS
OLD TYPEWRITERS ON SHOW IN HOLLAND A working display of vintage typewriters
Night fighters fly off in their Hurricanes to fight over Alexandria, North Africa.
AN UNQUENCHABLE FIRE Huge cork fire at Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
WALKIE-TALKIE DIVER Diver has a walkie-talkie microphone fitted into his helmet.
TELEPHONE TESTS John Laurie and his colleagues carry out tests on telephones to check their clarity.
SPEAKING CLOCK (aka TIME) A man dials 'TIM' then we hear and see the workings of the speaking clock.
PHONE IN YOUR CAR Car phones used by business men in Lancashire.
VIDEOPHONE TV Telephone - Viewphone
TYPEWRITING SPEED CONTEST Men and women take part in a typewriting contest on stage at The Hague.
PRINTED CIRCUITS UK Printed circuits are made by machine and hand in a factory.
COMMUNICATION SATELLITES (REEL ONE) Rocket being fired.
TV FROM SPACE Television pictures from America are received at Goonhilly in Cornwall, via Telstar.
THE TALKING LINK A look at the history of the telephone and the improvements which have been made.
WOULD YOUR BELIEVE IT NO. 12 Early writing machines
LISTENING POST BBC radio editors monitor broadcasts that come in from all over the world.
A MODERN MIRACLE New NBC Radio studios in New York are opened by David Sarnoff.
THUS FAR NO FATHER British soldiers at work in the Turkish countryside.
GHQ FIRE ARMY A look inside London Fire Brigade's control room in Lambeth.
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - LAUNCH OF CRUISER
TYPEWRITER FOR THE BLIND Close shots of a typewriter at work.
NEW SOUTH AMERICAN TRACKING STATION OPENED
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - TERRIBLE SNOW STROM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
NUREMBERG TRIALS Footage of Nuremberg.
REMFLEX COPIER copying machine in use at an office
ELECTRONIC TRANSCRIBER Joyce Macgram operates electronic transcriber
TV TELEPHONE An item about a futuristic form of communication.
BUSINESS EFFICIENCY EXHIBITION The latest developments in business technology on display
LIVERPOOL LOOKS AHEAD Liverpool harbour opens new radar station.
POLICE WALKIE-TALKIE RADIO London police demonstrate a new radio system.
G.P.O. RIGGERS (aka GPO RIGGERS) GPO riggers are trained and test equipment at Rugby Radio Station.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - DIRECT TELEPHONE SERVICE TO KENYA
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Tiros In Orbit: Weather Satellite Scans Earth's Skies
"Transit" Space Beacon For Sea And Air Lanes
U.S. Info Program Backed - Discussing The Marshall Plan
Sentry Satellite: 5,000 Pound Missile Spotter In Orbit
LONGEST TELEPHONE CALL IN THE WORLD! Lord Mayors of London and Sydney have a lon
THE INVADERS! The Post Office demonstrates how telegrams are sent and how mail i
"TREATING 'EM ROUGH!" - FILMED AT DOLLIS HILL
RADIO BUSES Radio communication enables buses to be sent quickly to queuing passengers.
REMFLEX COPIER copying machine in use at an office
TELE-TALES! the Central Telegraph Office in London in operation.
Telephone Switchboard at Post Office
"ON THE AIR" WAVES A look at some ways of listening to the radio outside the home.
FIGHTING THE FOG! Story showing how radio helps pilots flying through fog.
The making of the final splice in the first trans-atlantic cable.
Get-well cards for President Dwight Eisenhower
CINEVIEWS IN BRIEF (NO. 60) huge radio masts on wheels in Holland
CALL US SPEEDY Typing competition in the United States of America.
TOMMY MOSTOL Comedy sketch staring Tommy Mostol and Ray Zack.
TOMMY MOSTOL Comedy sketch staring Tommy Mostol and Ray Zack.
LAYING TELEPHONE LINE Footage of American soldiers laying telephone line.
A WRITING PHENOMENON 18-year-old John Bowd writes different things with both hands simultaneously.
CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 52) A 12 year old radio operator in Australia
WOULD YOUR BELIEVE IT NO. 12 Early typewriter
PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD (NO. 7) Ambidextrous man
CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 6) An artist writing in miniature.
CINEVIEWS IN BRIEF (NO. 4) A new typewriter for the blind
PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD (NO. 74) typewriter in a taxi.
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? NO. 6 Queer things the world over. Dictaphone invention
TYPEWRITER IN CARBOOT Woman demonstrates a typewriter in the trunk of her car.
TYPEWRITER IN CARBOOT Woman demonstrates a typewriter in the trunk of her car.
INVASION SCENES FAR EAST Oriental (Burmese? Chinese?) troops fighting at Lashio, Burma.
INVASION SCENES GIs on road and in country town.
REACTION TO DEATH OF ROOSEVELT American servicemen reading the news of Roosevelt's dead.
FRENCH FILM ABOUT FRENCH RESISTANCE Film showing French Resistance fighters in action.
SIGNATURES Item about signatures and autograph books.
INVASION SCENES Tanks move towards front, German POWs march along plus night shots of bombardment.
BOY ARTIST Tommy Fair works at the Central Telegraph Office and is also a talented artist.
TRAINEE SOLDIERS (aka TEACHING POLES RADIO) Boys learn signals at a school in the Middle East.
CLICHES Joe Noble illustrates various cliches through cartoons and sketches.
ATS MOVING CAMP ATS women service moving from camp.
INVASION SCENES - OKINAWA American troops in action on Japanese island of Okinawa.
RADIO OPERATOR Footage of radio operator.
Cold War Message Sent Behind the Iron Curtain
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - THE LAUNCH OF THE TALKING CLOCK
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - THE MILLIONTH TELEPHONE IN LONDON PRESENTED TO MAYOR
Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Michael Powelll Interview
News in Brief: Teen Telephone Company.
CADETS TRAINING Cadets training to be radio operators at camp in desert
CADETS TRAINING Cadets training to be radio operators at camp in desert
WIRELESS MAST - ITALIAN Footage of wireless mast in Italy, officials tour control room.
ST. KILDA WEATHER STATION Telex Machine & Telephone Switchboard
SIGNS A look at different signs, such as thumbs up, and where they originated from.
NEW TYPING AID FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Another Attempt And Another Failure
Early Advances in Telecommunications Systems
Early Advances in Telecommunications Systems
Early Advances in Telecommunications Systems
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - DRUMS FOR BATTALION OF KOYLI (King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry)
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - PRESENTATION OF CHIROPODY VAN
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - OLD SHIPS IN US
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - TELEGRAPH BOYS IN CITY STREETS
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - ROYAL AIR (RA) CORPS BOYS SIGN ON
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - HAILE SELASSIE & ABYSSINIANS
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - HMS ILLUSTRIOUS SAFE AFTER ATTACK IN MEDITERRANEAN
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - KING HAAKON & NORWEGIAN SAILORS
PICTURED PARAGRAPHS - MR CHURCHILL SEES COASTAL DEFENCES
COMPUTER TYPEWRITER New computer typewriter demonstrated.
Mr. Bell - PT4 - Alexander Graham Bell
PENS A short history of writing.
LANGUAGE OF THE FLOWERS Various things associated with different flowers are explored in this item.
Trailer: TIM MARCHES BACK asking people to use the telephone less.
THE POST MUSEUM OPENED IN HUNGARY
MULTI-LINGUAL TYPEWRITER An IBM golf ball typewriter is able to type in lots of different languages.
2 WAY WRIST RADIO Demonstration of new 2-way wrist radio as used by Dick Tracy.
SA TANK CORPS A foundry manufactures tanks as the South African tank corps is put through its paces.
CYPHERS An item about codes and cyphers through the ages.
YOUNG SIGNALLERS Schoolchildren in New South Wales learn to semaphore after school.
NEW AUSTRALIAN TRACKING STATION OPENED The opening of the Tidbindilla tracking station.
ELECTRONICA '68 EXHIBITION IN MUNICH Exhibition of the electronic equipment in Munich.
TAP TAP Item showing how tap dancing sounds are made, also features Rudy Starita and Daphne Day.
TRAINING RECRUITS SIGNALLING, BAYONETING
BERLIN POLICE IN ACTION Police in West Berlin show off their new computerised Headquarters.
United States Navy Training and Operations
FIRST BRITISH SATELLITE LAUNCH
Mr. Bell - PT4 - Alexander Graham Bell
IS YOUR PHONE TAPPED Debate on how far phone tapping can go.
PIGEON PRESENTED WITH MEDAL An American army pigeon called 'GI Joe' is presented with Dickin Medal.
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
Mr. Bell - PT4 - Alexander Graham Bell
DRIVING INSTRUCTION BY WALKIE TALKIE
Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Big Media Consolidation
HIKING SIGNS A young couple demonstrate various hiking signs made from twigs.
BEHIND THE CABLE Transcribing Cable Message
CHICK FARR Entertainer Chick Farr performs assisted by Phyllis Frances.
RADAR STATION IN NORTHERN CANADA RCAF Radar Station in Northern Canada.
Construction, Communication & Small Towns
LETTER WRITTEN BY LORD MAYOR OD LONDON - APPEALS FOR MONEY
EARTH STATION Radio space tracking station.
GOONHILLY EARTH STATION official opening of the Goonhilly satellite and communications centre
GOONHILLY DOWN Aerial view of satellite receiver dishes.
FANS The "language of the fan" is described and demonstrated.
DELTA 50 LAUNCHED Delta 50 rocket launched at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Big Media Consolidation
MARS TRACKING STATION AT MADRID
CHINESE PUZZLES NO 2 Chinese writing is translated.
Pre-War U.S. Army Signal Corps
SIGNALS Demonstrations of signalling techniques - from the raised thumb to semaphore.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - TERRIBLE SNOW STROM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA A look at valiant contribution of the Australian women to the war effort.
Calcutta, Please Pick Up - India Call Center
Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Big Media Consolidation
GOONHILLY EARTH STATION official opening of the Goonhilly satellite and communications centre
Goldstone Deep Space Communications
ASCENSION ISLAND BASE Various shots of rocket tracking station on the far flung Ascension Island.
2 WAY WRIST RADIO Demonstration of new 2-way wrist radio as used by Dick Tracy.
WOMENS AIR CORPS Women's Air Corps camp: girls learn first air, car maintenance and signalling.
RADIO POLICE DOG A police dog hears her trainer's instructions via a wireless on her back
FRENCH SINGER FRANK ALAMO French pop singer Frank Alamo singing around St. Tropez.
Telephone Switchboard at Post Office
LOOK OUT TAXIS ! Item about how minicabs have started to appear on the streets of London.
Calcutta, Please Pick Up - India Call Center
BRIDE BY PROXY Australian girl Patricia Harman marries American Robert Bloodsworth by proxy. Sydney.
DIARIES A look at diaries, including Old Father Time showing events from the past.
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
LORD MAYOR WRITING LETTER Lord Mayor of London writes special war loan appeal
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
LONDON GPO TOWER GPO General Post Office (now Telecom) Tower in late stage of building.
Mr. Bell - PT4 - Alexander Graham Bell
MORSE A look at Morse code and other forms of communication.
GPO TOWER TUNNEL Engineers at work in a tunnel under the Post Office Tower in London.
TELEPHONE RECIPE SERVICE An information centre provides recipes over the telephone.
FRENCH MINE DISASTER Relatives panic as French miners are trapped down a collapsed shaft
SA NAVAL BOYS South African naval reservists train at a base near the Cape.
TELLY TELEPHONE A new video telephone enables callers to see each other.
TOWN CRIERS Town Crier makes announcements in City of London.
SCOTLAND YARD MOVES Scotland Yard packs up and moves to a new building on Broadway.
MINIATURE WRITING ON RICE Keen-eyed Charles Gunner writes and draws on grains of rice.
RUGBY RADIO STATION Building work on Britain's biggest wireless Station.
