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How the Telephone Talks (1919)

How the Telephone Talks poster
Genre
documentary film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent documentary shows how telephones work. It uses demonstrations and animated diagrams to explain the technology.

educationalinformativequietold-fashionedinstructionalstraightforwardslow-pacednostalgic

What happens

How the Telephone Talks is a 1919 American silent educational documentary film made by Bray Studios. It demonstrates how the telephone works with a series of demonstrations and animated diagrams. The film was released on April 27, 1919. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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