Bell System Film – Drop Wire Runs Part 1 (b)

Bell System film from the late 1940’s early 1950’s describing how telephone wire gets from the pole to the customer. Some Central Office footage (step-by-step).

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Bell System Film – Drop Wire Runs Part 1 (a)

Bell System film from the late 1940’s early 1950’s describing how telephone wire gets from the pole to the customer. Some Central Office footage (step-by-step).

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Black and Decker 1972 promo

Black and Decker 1972 promo film – all kinds of power toolsThis is most interesting to me because it’s from 35 years ago now – and remembering which of these tools was amongst my Dad’s things.From a 16mm print, of course.

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More Bell System/Western Electric related films

A few more recent acquisitions:
Southern Bell Presents:
A ten minute sample of a fifty-three minute reel from 1973 (according to the date code) – intros that feature a ringing phone, a horn flourish and a ‘Southern Bell Presents’ logo intro.

Bell Tell of PA – circa 1961 (from the date code on the [...]

Southern Bell Presents…

This film is far more annoying than I thought it was going to be when I bid on it on eBay.  It’s about 2000 feet (close to an hour) and I’ve posted about 3 minutes 30 seconds of it to YouTube. The rest of it doesn’t get any better – trust me.
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IBM System/36 – It goes where the work is (1984)

IBM System/36 – It goes where the work is (1984)
Yet another IBM film out of my collection – welcome to the 80’s!
Part I:

Part II:

The School Information Center – IBM 1963

The School Information Center
This is a film from IBM dated 1963 (our print is from 1964) about data processing in a school context – enrollment, grading, college aptitude counseling, etc.
Lots of good shots of IBM hardware from the early 60’s – punchcard equipment etc.
Faded Eastman Color, unfortunately.
Part I:

Part II:
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Bell System Film from the 1970’s

Here’s our upload for the week:
The following is an interesting film that I obtained from a source that bought the assets of a film lab many years ago.
It’s a film that he called ‘Bell Performance.’ No beginning or ending titles, but still very interesting to me as Bell System nostalgia. We see telephones [...]