Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Also see catalog #534754 Mr. Bell - PT2 : Historical Recreation of the life of Alexander Graham Bell (Boston, 1870s). Format is very much like a play. Scene takes place inside large estate w/flashbacks of Bell teaching. Clip begins with Alexander Graham Bell talking to a young girl pushing a doll around in a buggy. GV as he walks up the stately home of his love Mabel. Interior of Bell entering the parlor with a bouquet of wildflowers, he walks through the room and sits at the piano and begins to sing as Mabel walks down the staircase. Several shots of Bell singing and playing the piano as Mabel enters the room. Mabel's father enters the room. Father and Bell talk about business arrangements. Dissolve to Bell lecturing a class of college/university students (a giant model of an ear sits on his desk). Shots of Bell teaching young deaf students and their teachers. Dissolve to living room where Father & Bell about business arrangements regarding the telegraph. Several shots as Bell explains the experiment which lead to the concept of the telephone to Mabel & her father.