"Hello Girls" of Chinatown

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

401

Date Released

7 Feb 1929

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1(Untitled record)
2. 2"Hello Girls" of Chinatown
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4(Untitled record)
5. 5(Untitled record)
6. 6Wash-days old and new

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

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 pagoda style building, the camera pans down to the entrance. Two men stand in the doorway, another man comes out of the building. Interior of the building. Backs of five telephone operators sitting on swivel chairs. "No wrong numbers here - they use queer names and queerer characters - " M/S of a supervisor (a woman) walking behind the girls as they work. C/U of two men standing in front of the girls and talking. "By some Celestial mystery the girls know just how to connect Hung Far Below to Won Lung Too." C/U of one of the girls at work connecting callers. She smiles at the camera.

Keywords

Women; Communications; Employment

Locations

United States of America; California; San Francisco

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   14 February 1929 p76.
The Bioscope   6 February 1929 p40.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.107
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP107 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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