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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. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: American Scene

    Date released
    14 Apr 1947
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    932
    NoS ID
    014387
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The American Scene. DESCRIPTION: TRUMAN SPEECH - President Truman outlines policies at a Jefferson Day Dinner in Washington. PORTABLE CAR LIFT - A new way to solve the parking problem,...

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  9. Home Guard Exercises

    Date released
    3 Jul 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/53
    NoS ID
    098866
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Home Guardsmen taking the part of enemy paratroops attempt to capture Wood Street telephone exchange. Other Home Guardsmen (wearing forage caps) put up the defence. As this takes place in the city of London...

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  10. Trunk Telephones

    Date released
    5 May 1968
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    68/37
    NoS ID
    113083
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    100 feet down under the centre of the Capital, 200 men work round-the-clock in London’s Trunk Telephone Exchange. Up to 1,000,000 trunk calls are handled every week in this converted "tube" tunnel.

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