0077 - Conquering Space

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0077 - Conquering Space

The benefits to mankind of new discoveries in the field of communication. Looks at postal communications, telegraphy and telephones and the new developments concerning wireless telephony. Approximate running time is given as 10 minutes (Hints for Lecturers (LN1), September 1936). Producer: Stuart Legg. Editor: G A Shaw. Details of scenes and times: 2.59 postman on bike 3.04 boy posting letter in a wall letter box. 3.11 postman and bike. 3.17-3.30 postman collecting post from wall post box and putting it in his postbag. 3.38 postman on bike arriving at post office. 3.48 a town post office with post box in wall. 3.49-3.59 men at sorting shelves in town post office. 4.00-4.13 rows of men on sorting line at a major sorting office. 4.14 letter sorting machine. 4.20-4.31 two banks of sorting cabinets with men sorting letters off a conveyor belt. 4.33 a post despatch bag with destination label. 4.36-4.44 a pile of post despatch bags being loaded onto a van. 4.46 a Royal Mail 1930's post van. 4.51-4.56 men collecting post despatch bags from a train. 4.56-4.59 a 1930s Royal Mail van. 5.00 post despatch bags being carried onto a boat. 5.08 a smaller Royal Mail van bringing mail to the plane. 5.10 loading post despatch bags onto the plane. 7.48 a morse code transmitter handset. 7.54 electric needle alternating dial. 8.09 & 8.16 man at top of telegraph pole. 8.12 reel of wire for pole. 8.21 cable going into the ground. 8.26 close up of lead sheathed cable. 8.31-8.39 cable and machinery on a cable-laying ship. 8.41 close up of hand morse code transmitter. 8.47-9.00 several people transmitting morse code from paper telegrams. 9.13 a tall aerial mast (at Rugby Wireless Station maybe). 9.15-9.22 an overseas services plug switchboard. 9.26 a radio telephone aerial mast. 09.27 two men with headphones in front of equipment. 9.34 close up of the connectors and wires at the top of an aerial mast. 10.32-10.39 Post Office researcher using equipment with dial and switches.

Catalogue

Finding Number: BTA-MI1/0077

Date: 1934

Period: 1930s

Level: Item

Distribution: Theatrical distribution

Film function: Informational (public)

Film subject: Communications

Year: 1934

Repository: BT Archives (ARCHON 1814)

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