New Cable Takes Voice Across Sea
New Cable Takes Voice Across Sea
The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable is completed, a 2,000 mile strand of heavily armored wire that will for the first time carry voice signals from hemisphere to hemisphere. The $45,000,000 project is the fruition of path finding engineering research. Establishing shot - A map showing New York, the ocean, London. MS - Men working off a conveyor belt with electronics to help boost fading voices. CUS - Hands putting a coupling together. MCU - A machine twisting the cable that will cross under the sea to London. POV - Back end of the cable ship laying down cable. CUS - A technician making the final splice on the cable. MCUS - Two technicians watching a huge electronic or early computer machine. The cost at this time in 1956 is $12.00 for three minutes.