Telephones for the Deaf

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2538

Date Released

22 Jan 1978

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Thames Flood Alert
2. 2Telephones for the Deaf
3. 3Model Railway Exhibition
4. 4Painted Trams
5. 5Haya 1 Fashions

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Telephone for the Deaf. DESCRIPTION: At Osbourne House, a hundred years after Alexander Graham Bell presented the telephone to Queen Victoria, Earl Mountbatten makes a Trans-Atlantic call to Bell’s grand-daughter. A new system of communication using the telephone and a television set was demonstrated by the Post Office. The system, called Viewdata, should open new horizons for the deaf. SHOTLIST: GV Osbourne House. SV exterior Lord Mountbatten arriving. LV interior Mountbatten & others assembling in Privy Room. SV Mountbatten sits down. SV Painting of Edward VII. SV Mountbatten picks up phone to speak to inventor Alexander Graham Bell’s grand-daughter Mrs Lilian Grosvenor-Jones. LV ditto. CU still of Mrs Jones. SV Mountbatten on phone. SV first transatlantic visual message to Washington showing up on screen. Mr Barker presents replica of Bell’s original telephone to Surgeon Captain RS MacDonald - Governor of Osbourne House. SV man demonstrating Viewdata machine. CU on screen - Post Office Viewdata. SV message being typed. CU message on screen. SV hands typing message. CU various information details on screen. CU man’s face. SV hands typing message ‘Thank You for Calling’.

Keywords

Communications; Military; Disabled persons

Locations

Isle of Wight; Osbourne House

Card file number

78/4

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Camera

Richard Day

Length of story (in feet)

123

Story extras:

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