A woman of the U.S. Navy WAVES program ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service") operating motion picture projectors in a projection booth, during World War 2. She wears a short-sleeve white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie pushed back on each side. she watches the screen (unseen) while monitoring the projectors. The sequence is interrupted. It picks up again as she is seen threading the film on a motion picture film projector and starting it
View of picture of 1908 McLauglin-Buick and 1915 sedan auto. Map of Europe with German Iron Cross superimposed. Newspapers running off presses. Headline on paper reading, 'Arch Duke Assassinated.' Headline reading, 'Germany Declares War; All Europe is in Arms.' Headline reading, 'Germany Invades France', superimposed over German troops marching in background. Headline, 'French Resist at Marne.' Headline, 'Lusitania Sunk' with picture of the ship. Newspaper presses running. Printer reading paper with headlines 'U.S. Declares War.' Paper reading, 'U.S. At War.' Headline, 'U.S. Troops Land in France.' Billboard sign, 'Beat Back the Hun With Liberty Bonds' superimposed over picture of troops marching in background. Ships under construction. Destroyer underway.
A man opening pages of a Photo album, with a cover reading 'When Telephone Was Young'. Shows pictures of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; the place where telephone was invented and Thomas A. Watson, who made the first telephone. Then, in a reenactment, by actors, Watson enters a room and gives a prototype model of the telephone to Bell. Bell examines and connects other parts of telephone. Watson goes to a short distance in room. Bell speaks first words over telephone 'Mr. Watson, Come here; I want you!'. Watson hears the words on receiver. Then Bell goes to another room with the phone receiver and Watson speaks over phone. Both in room hug each other.
A film describing a mechanical dialing system of telephones. Men working with switchboards and other equipment. A woman with a short curly flapper hair cut dials a phone number on a candlestick style phone and speaks into the phone.
A film describing telephone exchange operations and the work of early telephone switchboard operators. A book showing picture of 1879 telephone exchange. Young men reenact the operation of an 1879 era telephone exchange or switchboard. They work feverishly to keep up with calls and make connections while a supervisor stands behind and observes. The 1879 system is then contrasted with the newer 1926 system. Large number of women seen seated at a line of telephone switchboards, handling calls in an orderly fashion. They wear early headphone apparatus. Supervisors walk behind the women inspecting operations. Close up view of women operating the telephone switchboards. Animated representation of connection between telephones and different places.
Animated film shows how sound waves are created by the human voice cause movement of air molecules and how this movement is transmitted through the flexible diaphragm of the telephone mouthpiece. The electrons passing through carbon granules in the mouthpiece are transformed into electric current and the magnet and flexible diaphragm in the telephone receiver transforms the current into sound waves. An old man and a kid talking into phone.
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