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Documentary, We Learn About The Telephone (1965)
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00:19That's no way to answer the phone, Susie.
00:21Hello, Matthews residence. This is Jimmy.
00:24Just a minute, please.
00:26Uncle Bill, Captain Adams wants to talk to you.
00:29Thanks, Jimmy.
00:30Hi, Captain. This is Bill.
00:32No, we don't usually have ducks answer the phone.
00:35That one belongs to Susie.
00:36My niece and nephew are visiting me, and I promised to take them on a picnic.
00:41Oh, you need that poster today.
00:43If it doesn't stop, there won't be anything.
00:46No, we don't...
00:49Crackle likes it.
00:50Yeah, it's great weather for ducks.
00:52Oh, sure. Glad to do it.
00:55Bye.
00:57Captain Adams wants this poster I've done for him delivered to him at police headquarters today.
01:02I'll drop it off on our way to the park.
01:05Good thing I got that phone call.
01:06If he hadn't reached me, I wouldn't have gotten it to him on time.
01:09I never thought about that, Uncle Bill.
01:11You never thought about what?
01:13What did people do before the telephone was invented?
01:16How did they get messages to each other in a hurry?
01:19Well, while we're waiting for the rain to stop,
01:22let's see if we can find out by playing make-believe.
01:27Oh, good. That sounds like fun.
01:29Now,
01:33here's our friend.
01:41We'll call him, uh, Mr. Man.
01:44He's going to take us back thousands of years,
01:47way before telephones or televisions or Telstar.
01:53He looks a little like you, Uncle Bill.
01:55He looks a little like all of us, Jimmy.
01:58You ready, Mr. Man?
02:01Man has played many parts during the years he has lived on Earth.
02:05So let's make believe we're going back in time.
02:07Thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago?
02:10That's right.
02:12When man lived in caves and hunted for their food.
02:17Found a herd of buffalo.
02:20At last, meet for supper.
02:23Run and tell the others to bring weapons
02:26or else supper will run away.
02:29The only way Mr. Caveman knew how to get a message
02:32from one place to another was to send a runner.
02:36As civilization grew, man's way of life changed.
02:40But he still used runners to send messages.
02:44The Egyptians used runners.
02:46It took two days for a Greek runner
02:49to bring the news of a great victory.
02:51He is getting tired.
02:54Phew.
02:56He discovered he could ride horses.
03:04The Romans used horses.
03:08So did the knights.
03:15That's a pony express rider.
03:17That's right.
03:19But man wanted to send messages
03:22faster than a runner or horse could travel.
03:32He's sending an Indian smoke signal.
03:34Right.
03:35But only the simplest messages
03:37could be sent this way.
03:38And none at all if it rained.
03:44He learned to use flashing mirrors by daylight
03:48and blinking lights when it was dark.
03:51He couldn't send messages very far that way, could he?
03:54No, Jimmy, he couldn't.
03:55But man has always been able to solve his problems
03:57by inventing new things.
03:59That's a telegraph message.
04:01Yes.
04:01About 125 years ago,
04:04Samuel Morris invented the telegraph,
04:06a way to send code messages
04:07over an electric wire.
04:09The code was made by using different clicks
04:12for each letter of the alphabet.
04:15First message sent over 40 miles of wire was,
04:20What hath God wrought?
04:22The telegraph was, and still is, wonderful.
04:26But Mr. Mann wanted to send his voice over a distance
04:29to carry on a real conversation.
04:32Then in 1876,
04:34a man named Alexander Graham Bell found a way.
04:37He invented the telephone.
04:41Hey, that's your phone, Uncle Bill.
04:45Hello, Matthew's residence.
04:47This is Jimmy.
04:48Hi, Mom.
04:49Hi.
04:49Yes, we got here before the rain started.
04:52Uncle Bill's gonna take us on a picnic if it lets up.
04:55Bye.
04:55We're playing make-believe.
04:57I'll tell you about it when we get home.
04:59Good.
04:59Okay, Mom.
05:00Bye.
05:02What are you doing, Susie?
05:03She wanted to hear the voice going through the wire.
05:07You can't hear voices in the wire.
05:09Well, how does it work?
05:11How'd your mother's voice get in the phone?
05:14That's simple.
05:15It's funny.
05:18I don't know.
05:20I never thought about it before.
05:23We were talking as if we were in the same room.
05:26How does the telephone work, Uncle Bill?
05:29Magic?
05:31No, not magic, Susie, but science.
05:33Science of sound waves and electricity.
05:36How do they work?
05:38We'll let Mr. Mann show us.
05:48We'll pretend now he's a musician.
05:51All sounds come from a movement of the air.
05:54Back and forth.
05:55Like waves.
05:56I don't see any waves.
05:59See the string move back and forth?
06:02I have seen strings and rubber bands move back and forth,
06:05but I've never seen a sound wave.
06:07Well, you can't really see them.
06:09You hear them.
06:10If you could see them, they'd look like this.
06:13Different kinds of sounds make different kinds of sound waves.
06:19A low sound makes a different wave than a high sound.
06:31Hey, Rudolph, that's the wrong note.
06:35You see, people's voices make sound waves, too.
06:39When we speak, air from our lungs moves vocal cords like these in our throats.
06:46Hey, Rudolph!
06:48This movement makes sound waves and sends them out of our mouths.
06:53Hey!
06:54Hey!
06:56When sound waves reach the ear of another person,
06:59they make the drum in his ear move back and forth,
07:02and he hears the sound the other person is making.
07:04I see.
07:05But how do you hear over the telephone?
07:07We're coming to that.
07:10When Mr. Man speaks into the telephone,
07:12the flow of electricity in the wires
07:14makes it possible for the other person to hear what Mr. Man is saying
07:18just as quick as a flash.
07:22But how?
07:23Well, when he has dialed his friend and his friend Rudolph answers,
07:27the flow of electricity in the wires
07:28connects Mr. Man's telephone through the telephone building
07:32to his friend's phone.
07:34Oh, Rudolph!
07:36Mr. Man's vocal cords make sound waves which go into the mouthpiece of the telephone.
07:41These sound waves make the electricity flow stronger and weaker,
07:47depending on the sound waves his voice makes.
07:50Remember now that the flow of electricity is changing from strong to weak
07:56as it comes from Mr. Man's telephone.
08:00These changes work on the receiver very much the way sound works on your eardrum.
08:05The electricity makes a little metal plate vibrate.
08:09This vibration makes sound waves come out of the receiver.
08:13And so, in a split second, the person on the other end of the line
08:18hears the same words Mr. Man is speaking.
08:20And what he hears sounds just like Mr. Man's voice.
08:26Rudolph!
08:27I said that's the wrong note!
08:38Ah, Susie, you shouldn't play around with the telephone.
08:41Somebody may be trying to...
08:43See?
08:45Somebody was trying to call us.
08:47Yo, Matthews.
08:51Would you repeat that slowly, sir?
08:54Well, you must have the wrong number.
08:56What number are you calling?
08:58Is Mabel Lobel there?
09:00Well, not so loud!
09:01Oh, Susie, doesn't Mabel Lobel live there?
09:04I'm sorry, but this is 555-3759.
09:12I shouldn't lose my temper,
09:14even when people roar into the telephone at me.
09:19Always talking, always talking.
09:23It's a good thing animals don't talk on the telephone.
09:26Say, let's pretend we're at a talking animal circus.
09:31Mr. Man can be the ringmaster.
09:33Sounds like fun.
09:36There we are.
09:38May I draw his whip?
09:39Sure.
09:47Whiskers?
09:48Whiskers?
09:56All set, Mr. Man?
09:59Ladies and gentlemen,
10:02presenting the greatest,
10:05the most sound-sational,
10:07talking animal act
10:09the world has ever heard.
10:12Introducing
10:13the lion
10:15and the minor bird.
10:19Miss Myrtle Minor Bird speaking.
10:25How are you?
10:30Please don't roar at me.
10:33What did the lion do wrong, Jimmy?
10:35You don't have to shout into the telephone to be heard.
10:38That's right.
10:39Just use your normal speaking voice
10:41and speak directly into the mouthpiece.
10:45I'm sorry, Myrtle.
10:50Presenting
10:51the impatient squirrel
10:53and the sleepy bear.
10:56Watch, Jimmy.
10:58When you dial,
10:59you should make sure
10:59you bring your finger
11:00all the way around
11:01to the finger stop.
11:03Then for each number,
11:05let the dial go
11:06all the way back
11:07by itself.
11:08Each number.
11:09All the way.
11:11Then let go.
11:12See?
11:13Yes, sir.
11:40Hello?
11:43Hello?
11:46Hmm. Now I wonder who that was.
11:56He waited too long.
11:58Right. He waited too long to answer.
12:01But if you're the person making the call, you should let the phone ring eight to ten times.
12:07See? Both of them are disappointed.
12:10And now, the preposterous pachyderms.
12:14In other words, elephants.
12:19So like I said, I wanted to invite you to a party.
12:26Smarty? Who are you calling a smarty?
12:30No, no. I said I'm giving a party.
12:35At my house.
12:38Mouse? Don't you call me a mouse.
12:42What is the matter, Jimmy?
12:45Hello?
12:46I know. It's important to speak clearly on the phone so the other person can understand what you're saying.
12:52Right again, Jimmy.
12:54And now, for our grand finale.
12:58The Gossipy Piggy and the Fed-up Fox.
13:02Well, guess who was there? Betty, hmm?
13:06So I said to her, well, who is it every time I go to a sale, I run into you?
13:11It's just the funniest thing.
13:14Excuse me, lady.
13:16But I've been waiting to make an important call for 25 minutes.
13:20But I simply must tell Irma about my new hat.
13:24Well, now, as I was saying before I was interrupted...
13:28It's selfish and impolite to hog the phone.
13:31Somebody may be waiting to use it or trying to call your house.
13:36See, that was fun.
13:37I hope nobody's being selfish on Bobby's phone.
13:40I'll call him to see if he's coming on the picnic.
14:06The telephone book is very helpful.
14:08Our friends are in it, like Robert Martin.
14:11Our doctor is in it.
14:12The television repairman.
14:14The bicycle shop.
14:16Then in this little book, I write down the numbers of people I call often.
14:19You should have one too, Jimmy.
14:21It saves a lot of time to keep the phone numbers of people you call often.
14:24Like your friend Bobby.
14:25Oh, yes.
14:26Hey, look, the sun's out.
14:28Now we can go on our picnic.
14:30Hooray!
14:32I'll try to call Bobby again.
14:34Well, tell him to meet us in front of the police station at 2.30.
14:36That way we can drop off the poster for Captain Adams.
14:39All right.
14:59Hello, Mrs. Martin.
15:01This is Jimmy Matthews.
15:03May I please speak to Bobby?
15:07Hi, Bobby.
15:09Listen.
15:09We'll meet you in front of the police station at 2.30.
15:12Don't forget to bring your ball and glove.
15:24Hi, Tom.
15:25Hi there.
15:26Children.
15:27This is Captain Adams.
15:28Hello, Captain Adams.
15:29How are you today?
15:30Fine.
15:30I want to be a policeman when I grow up.
15:34She wants to be everything when she grows up.
15:37Here's the emergency poster you wanted.
15:39Thanks.
15:40I think Jimmy and Susie would like to know how valuable the telephone is in emergencies.
15:45Good.
15:45You come inside for a minute and I'll show you.
15:55Now, the telephone helps us because it lets us know right away when we're needed and how,
15:59when, and where we can help people.
16:01How would I call the police if I needed them?
16:03This poster your uncle made will show you how.
16:09We want to use this to show children how to get help.
16:12In an emergency, you dial zero to get the telephone operator.
16:20Be sure you hear the dial tone first.
16:23Remember?
16:24Yes, sir.
16:26A zero is the last hole on the dial.
16:30Now, see?
16:31Be sure you bring the dial all the way around to the stop.
16:35Then remove your finger and let the dial go back.
16:38Now, you dial zero once and the operator will answer.
16:41Then what?
16:43Then you say, I want a policeman, please, and the operator will connect you with the police station.
16:49Now, when somebody, like the sergeant here, answers,
16:54you tell him who you are, where you are, and why you're calling the police.
17:00Police station, Sergeant Evers.
17:02My Linda's lost.
17:03Oh, that's too bad.
17:05May I have your name and address, please?
17:06Mrs. Jane Hoskins.
17:08Mm-hmm.
17:0942 Barton.
17:10And your phone number?
17:12555-1029.
17:13How old is Linda?
17:15Five.
17:16Five?
17:16Yes.
17:17Where did you see her last?
17:19In our front yard.
17:20And how long has she been missing?
17:22Half hour.
17:23And what was she wearing?
17:24A sort of strawberry pink dress and a yellow cotton sweater.
17:28A pink dress and a yellow sweater, hmm?
17:32Yes, sir.
17:33All right, Mrs. Hoskins.
17:34Don't worry.
17:35We'll find her and let you know as soon as we do.
17:37Oh, hurry.
17:38Yes, ma'am.
17:39Goodbye.
17:42Thanks, Sergeant.
17:44Now, see how careful we are to write everything down?
17:47Pardon me.
17:52Yes, sir.
17:53Get out an all-points bulletin.
17:55Five-year-old girl lost.
17:58Linda Hoskins.
18:01Last seen on Elm Street.
18:04Here's a description.
18:09Sarge, this is Officer Jensen, 6th and Elm Street.
18:13That's what I'm calling you about.
18:17She was all alone, looking in a toy store window.
18:21Oh, sure, she's fine.
18:23Good work, Officer Jensen.
18:25We'll have a car to pick her up right away.
18:27See how the telephone helps us do our job?
18:30Call Mrs. Hoskins and tell her we've found her little girl.
18:33Over here at the window, I want to show you something.
18:44There it is, the telephone building.
18:46In many ways, it ties the community together.
18:50When you dial a number, this equipment inside the telephone building
18:53automatically connects you with the person you're calling,
18:56whether he's across the street or miles and miles away.
19:00Thousands and thousands of calls go through here every day.
19:04This is Riley's dairy.
19:05We need 50 pounds of butter.
19:0750 pounds of butter.
19:09And one crate of large eggs.
19:11We'll deliver it today.
19:13This is Mrs. Lee, Doctor.
19:15When can I bring Tommy in for his checkup?
19:17Let me see.
19:19How about Tuesday, 4 o'clock?
19:22That will be fine.
19:24My lady's garage, Joe speaking.
19:25This is Les Perkins.
19:26My produce truck's broken down.
19:29I don't know what's the matter.
19:30Where are you?
19:31Highway 26 near Maple Avenue.
19:34Okay, Les.
19:35I'll be right out.
19:36Lena's mother asked me to stay for lunch.
19:38May I?
19:38All right, Maria.
19:40But be home by 3 o'clock.
19:41I will.
19:42That shipment gone to Plainview yet?
19:44Not yet, Carl.
19:45We're loading it now.
19:46Good.
19:47Listen, Jess.
19:48They just called.
19:49They want three more cartons of soap.
19:51Okay, Carl.
19:53But telephone service wouldn't be complete without people to handle special calls and emergencies.
19:59Let's hear what the operators are saying.
20:02Mr. Hanson, please, long distance calling.
20:05I'm sorry, the line is busy.
20:07I'll keep trying and call you.
20:09Mr. Marco, I'm ready on your call to Honolulu.
20:13I'll connect you with the fire department.
20:16On your call to Sunnyside, Mr. McCarthy will be back in an hour.
20:20Will you talk with anyone else?
20:30The fire department needs the telephone as much as we do.
20:33I'm sure of that.
20:35Well, thanks a lot, Captain.
20:36Not at all.
20:36Thank you for bringing the poster.
20:38Have fun, everyone.
20:39Goodbye.
20:43It's after 2.30.
20:45I wonder where Bobby is.
20:46I'm sure he'll be here soon.
20:51Like Quacker.
20:53A jet plane flies a lot higher and faster than Quacker.
20:56Can telephones reach up into the sky?
20:58They can and they do.
20:59And even more amazing.
21:01Men are working with communication satellites that orbit the Earth.
21:04These satellites can carry telephone messages and television pictures
21:08to and from many different parts of the world.
21:11And outer space?
21:12Yes, Jimmy.
21:13Outer space, too.
21:15Man himself has entered space.
21:18All systems go.
21:19A-OK.
21:21Why, it's Mr. Man.
21:23Yes.
21:24And just think, Jimmy and Susie.
21:26Someday in the future, you may pick up a telephone
21:29and soon be talking with your friend.
21:31Even if he's on the moon.
21:34When do we go, Uncle Ben?
21:37Pretty soon.
21:38Hey, Jimmy!
21:39Here he comes.
21:47Sorry I'm late, Jimmy.
21:48I couldn't find my glove.
21:49That's OK, Bobby.
21:50Let's go.
21:53Don't talk.
22:03Are you sure?
22:10I'm sure he'll decide it.
22:11Have a glad evening.
22:20Thank you, Selbstfin D.
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