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  1. Mobile Telephone Exchange

    Date released
    12 Dec 1938
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    38/99
    NoS ID
    096614
    Story no
    5 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Postmaster General inaugurates mobile exchange which could replace a damaged permanent exchange.

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  2. Hullo Down There

    Date released
    6 May 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2031
    NoS ID
    027364
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hello Down There. DESCRIPTION: A hundred feet below Holborn, the GPO’s London Underground Trunk Exchange, which handles up to two million calls a week. SHOTLIST: GV interior GPO...

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  3. The Tele Skater Girls

    Date released
    23 Mar 1929
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    407
    NoS ID
    332125
    Story no
    3 / 6

    NoS Summary - Girls roller skating around a telephone exchange in Los Angeles. British Pathe synopsis: Girls working in a telephone exchange in Los Angeles wear roller skates to get around. C/U of lines...

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  4. Time Please

    Date released
    29 Jan 1940
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    513
    NoS ID
    124436
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    In these enlightened days, if you want to know the time you dial "Tim" the mechanical time keeper of the telephone exchange and here’s the latest member of Tim’s family at an exchange in Rome.

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  5. Reports: Sir Neville Chamberlain opens the new Birmingham Telephone Exchange

    Date released
    25 Jan 1937
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    399
    NoS ID
    007225
    Story no
    6 / 13

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Telephone House Birmingham. SHOTLIST: Exterior of the new telephone building. Interior of Sir Neville Chamberlain speaking. Mr Chamberlain pulls switch. Generator in action. Men at...

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  6. Grace in Action

    Date released
    11 Dec 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1540A
    NoS ID
    022745
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Queen at Bristol. DESCRIPTION: The Queen, accompanied by the Postmaster-General, Mr Ernest Marples, visited Bristol telephone exchange. First, Her Majesty had a look at old-time...

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  7. Birmingham’s New Telephone Exchange

    Date released
    23 Jan 1937
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    37/7
    NoS ID
    094284
    Story no
    14 / 14
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Opened by Mr Neville Chamberlain.

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  8. "Hello Girls" of Chinatown

    Date released
    7 Feb 1929
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    401
    NoS ID
    332086
    Story no
    2 / 6

    NoS Summary - San Francisco’s Chinatown telephone exchange. British Pathe synopsis: "Chinatown, San Francisco, has the quaintest Telephone Exchange so far - " reads an intertitle. Low angle shot of a...

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  9. Tim Makes His Debut

    Date released
    27 Jul 1936
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    565
    NoS ID
    034632
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Time at your fingertips. Astronomer Royal opens new telephone talking clock service at Holborn Exchange.

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  10. The World’s Switchboard

    Date released
    8 May 1933
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    33/37
    NoS ID
    090603
    Story no
    5 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Lord Mayor opens international telephone exchange - one of the wonders of the world and an all-British triumph! World’s 32 million telephone subscribers can now speak to each other with exception of...

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