Bridge Under the Ocean

195711 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Raymond Garceau

Production: Nicholas Balla

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation.

A drama of our modern age, this film documents a milestone in the history of overseas communication. It provides a shipside view of the laying of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable from Oban, Scotland, to Clarenville, Newfoundland--an accomplishment equalled only by the laying of the first telegraph cable ninety years earlier. The film concludes with ceremonies on both sides of the Atlantic when, for the first time in history, the human voice was carried by direct wire across two thousand miles of ocean.

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Subject categories


  • Technology > CommunicationsTelephone Equipment
  • Media and Communication > Telephone Communications

Credits


director
Raymond Garceau
producer
Nicholas Balla
photography
Peter Kelly
sound
George Croll
editing
Victor Jobin
sound editing
Malca Gillson
animation
Sidney Goldsmith
narrator
Jack Curran