# 1965 BELL TELEPHONE EDUCATIONAL FILM " WE LEARN ABOUT THE TELEPHONE " 10064

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This color educational film (with some animation) takes the viewer through history to explain how people developed a need to communicate, and shows us devices that helped to do so along with current day communication devices. It is from 1965 and stars Wright King as Uncle Bill and is presented by Bell System. Opening titles over a telephone: WE LEARN ABOUT THE TELEPHONE (:06-:14). A telephone rings and a little girl, Susie, picks it up making her duck make noises into the receiver, her brother, Jimmy, grabs it and hands it over to his Uncle Bill. As the uncle talks on the phone the children rush over to a couch and stare out the window at the pouring rain. The uncle talks with the children. He creates an animated character, Mr. Man, who is going to explain the history of communications. Animation: the character makes himself into a caveman, they seek food. The caveman runs and tuns into an Egyptian and then a Greek, as a Greek he jumps onto a horse and rides the horse. He becomes a Roman and then a Knight and then a Pony Express Cowboy rider. As an Indian, he creates smoke signals to send a message. A rainstorm curtails that. Mirrors in daylight and blinking lights when dark for ships to communicate (:15-3:58). Animated: telegraph machine, Samuel Morris invented it and uses it. The first message sent was: What hath God wrought?,…

- Kind: Educational
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/10064welearnaboutthetelephonevwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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