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State telegraph exists one hundred years
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Week number: 52-31
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The Rijkstelegraaf (State telegraph) exists 100 years. For this occassion an exhibition about communication now and then is held in The Hague. SHOTS: - A congratulatory telegram is handed in at the counter of the post office, after which a telegrapher types out the text on a telegraph; a small strip of paper with the printed text comes out of the side of the machine; - int. exhibition room: on the wall a copy of a historic text of a law on telegraphic communication; in a historical timeline the beginning and the expansion of the telegraphic communication through the years is shown: several old and new machines are demonstrated, starting with a historic Morse apparatus and ending with a modern telex; - ext. modern machines; cue of relay connectors; van relaisschakelaars; - technicians are seated behind the control panels; - in a room rows of telegraphers, with headsets and microphones, are seated behind their machines.
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Publication date:
- 1 August 1952
- Length:
- 01:59
- Type:
- video
- Original format:
- User:
- Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid