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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: long distance communication, tom toms, heliographs, smoke signals, town crier, mail service, newspapers, radio |
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Synopsis: Methods of communicating news on a large scale from beating drums and Heliograph signal mirrors to modern newspapers and radio... (read more) |
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Information: 1945 BW 21 min |
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Scenes include:
Clock faces and early radios, shows a news commentator at work in a broadcast studio.
African natives beat tom-toms to send news. Dramatized sequences show ancient Greeks sending messages by flashing sunlight from a polished shield, Indian smoke signals, a town crier in colonial America, mission fathers in the Southwest using carrier pigeons, dog sleds carrying mail in the Arctic, and ladies gossiping.
Briefly describes modern communications methods such as the telegraph, wireless telegraph, telephone, and teletype machine. Discusses how the organization of reporters around the world became a necessity.
Newspapers joined forces and great news gathering agencies were formed. Footage of men working in major newspaper newsrooms. Uses the sinking of the United States gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River of China to illustrate the rapid dissemination of news of the event through the United Press system. A United News reporter was on-board during the attack, jumped overboard, swam to safety and reached a telephone. The world knew of the incident within hours of the incident rather than weeks. |
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