Sponsored Films

A Continent Is Bridged (1940)
Sponsor: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Production Co.: Audio Productions Inc. Narrator: Edwin C. Hill. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 39 minutes.

Docudrama produced in celebration of the 25th anniversary of transcontinental voice communications. The film highlights the history of the telephone, from Alexander Graham Bell’s invention to the linking of New York City and San Francisco by transcontinental voice line on January 25, 1915, with the final connection made at the Nevada-Utah state line. The short details how AT&T departments worked together to achieve long-distance telephony.

Note: A Continent Is Bridged was intended for both corporate and public screenings and in March 1940 was broadcast from NBC’s experimental TV station in New York.