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Communication: Information For All
Historical stock footage documenting the strides made in communications with inventions that have have made information more accessible to the the technology that gives us the ability to communicate at the speed of light. Our Public Domain Stock Footage titles document different aspects of communication and the revolutionary and evolutionary advances in how mass communication has change our lives.
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BANKING REVOLUTION, A
FROM PEN TO COMPUTER

From a quill pen to the electronic computer that can read, sort, print, process checks and retrieve customer data in reccord time.
(public domain films) 1961 15 min COL
Public Domain Stock Footage Early Communications
BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY, THE
Construction of telephone lines and the growth of the telephone system showing early telephones, switchboards and cables.
(public domain films) 1928 15 min BW (SILENT)
Public Domain Stock Footage Early Communications
DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS -
FROM TELEGRAPH TO TELEVISION

History of the development and evolution of communications; telegraph, telephone, radio and television.
(public domain films) 1953 BW 10min
Public Domain Stock Footage Early Communications
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EARLY AMERICA: 1607 - 1940
The beginnings of America with famous events re-enacted as well as documenting strides in education, technology and politics.
(public domain films) 1945 17 min BW
Public Domain Stock Footage Flashback 20s 50s
EARLY COMPUTERS
TThe U.S. military sponsored the research for development of the ENIAC computer heralding the start of the computer age.
(public domain films) 1944 - 1945 10 min BW (SILENT)
Public Domain Stock Footage Early Communications
NEWS IN THE AIR - HISTORY OF MASS MEDIA
Methods of communicating news on a large scale from beating drums and signal mirrors to modern newspapers and radio.
(public domain films) 1945 21 min BW
Public Domain Stock Footage Early Communications
WHAT MR. BELL HAD IN MIND
1950's TELEPHONE ETIQUETTE

A What If story of Alexander Bell as he looks back at his invention of the telephone and his intent versus how people of the 1950's are actually using his telephone and what type of phone calls are being made.
(public domain films) 1950's BW 11min
Public Domain Stock Footage Early Communications
Public Domain Stock Footage Newsreels
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Newsreels: Events Around The World Section is an amazing conglomerate of stock footage titles documenting events around the world as they unfold year by year from dangerous Cold War standoffs such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall to far reaching Presidential decisions and legislation that can still be felt today as well as happenings on the domestic front, such as college and professional sports to Hollywood films and stars to fashion and leisure time activities.