Television Commercials: Telephone (1970)

      This short film, Television Commercials: Telephone, shows and proves the importance of a telephone and a place's area code. It starts off with someone dialing the area code 314 which is the area code of St. Louis, Missouri. It shows that just by one small dial of an area code, you can reach all the way and communicate with someone from another city across the world. It proves the importance of modern technology and how far we've come in society and in this technological era. That by three small dials on the phone, you can almost reach paradise and anything you've ever wanted. In St. Louis, you can visit the gateway arch and take a nice stroll in the city. This video is introducing the idea that a telephone can solve all your wonders.
      This film is useful to students of our modern information and communication infrastructure by just scratching the surface to what a telephone is capable of doing. The video shows that wherever you go, no matter how far, or what you have to do, you can always keep in touch with your family and friends back home, by phone. It is essential to learn who first developed the technology for telephone and the first switchboards. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, developed the first telephone, the first operators, and switchboards in Boston, MA. This is where it all began. Soon telephone lines to New York, Chicago, and westward began sprouting. And from San Francisco eastward. A call from New York to San Francisco in 1915 was $20.70. By 1920, it was $8.25. The reason for this is because telephone expansion became essential across the world.
      All in all, it is important for students to be learning about not only the technology developed but the history behind the telephone. The telephone is an integral part in someone's everyday life. This video is almost like a timeline about how the telephone has progressed throughout American history. The video ends with a quote, "They said it couldn't be done... but it was."