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Telephone switchboard in Berlin, 1932
Telephone operators sit at a switchboard, wearing headsets and mouthpieces as they connect incoming calls by plugging cables into the panel. Berlin possessed one of Europe's largest telephone networks at the end of the Weimar Republic, yet connecting calls remained largely manual work and was a typical occupation for women between the wars. In the following years automatic dial exchanges increasingly took over, gradually displacing the profession of telephone operator. The footage was shot as part of unedited newsreel coverage of everyday life in Berlin.
- Period
- 1932
- Credit
- The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH
Specifications
- Clip name
- HFE010335
- Length
- 0' 04"
- Aspect Ratio
- 16:9
- Frames per Second
- 24 fps
- Chroma Subsampling
- yuv422p10le
- Resolution
- 1920 × 1080
- Format
- MOV
- File Size
- 91,051,860 bytes