The Telephone Girls
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Telephone Operators at Work
Pathe Intertitles - ""Number, please!" How often do we hear these quietly spoken words. How solemn we think about the busy girls behind the scenes -" One shot
"It takes weeks of assiduous training to cut out those odd seconds which spell efficiency for the ‘phone girls -" Four shots
"And behind the great switchboards the innumerable meters to count your calls - (the P.O. hate to miss any!)" Two shots
"In this Exchange are 10,000 lines! If you don’t believe us, count them for yourself!" Three shots
"Each of these cables has up to 2000 lines. (Tracing faults here is worse than picking up stitches, girls!)" One shot
""Changing over." Not a second is lost - the new relief just plugs in and takes up the calls -" Three shots - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Women; Business and commerce; Employment
- Written sources
- J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p128.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.31
Pathe Eve 170-210 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 250
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Film Archive
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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- Address
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How to cite this record
'The Telephone Girls', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 184, 11 Dec 1924. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331172 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)