Laying a Marine Cable (1913)

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1913 silent documentary shows the installation of the first Morse Atlantic Cable. It is a short black and white film about a cable stretching three thousand kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean to connect Europe and America.

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What happens

Laying a Marine Cable è un cortometraggio muto del 1913. Il nome del regista non viene riportato nei credit del documentario che illustra la prima posa del Morse Atlantic Cable, il cavo di tremila chilometri che collegava, attraversando l'Oceano Atlantico, l'Europa all'America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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