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Telecommunications - How Your Overseas Messages Are Sent

How the telecommunications system worked in Australia in the mid 20th century
Series : Australian Diary | Episode : 26 | Year : 1949 | Total Duration : 3 Minutes | Producer : Jack S Allan
H/A exterior General Post Office - GPO - Sydney, Chairman of Overseas Telecommunications Commission - OTC -- Mr J.J. Malone talks to camera about OCT, woman to counter , sends telegram, pneumatic tubes take message to other department, women working sending messages, CU woman talking on telephone, telephonist and typewriter, businessman & secretary, perforated ticker tape, radio transmitter, technicians and equipment, dispatch department,woman in hospital bed with baby talking on telephone (1949)
Access No. 43224 | 4 mins 30 secs | 1940s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |