NFB Collection
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