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005 tells the time (1961)

Original title: 005 ütleb kellaaja

Newsreel „Soviet Estonia” No. 37, November 1961

Newsreels Duration 00:53

005 tells the time

Staged story about the date between a young girl and a boy. The boy is obviously late since all the clocks in Tallinn show different time. But now there is the solution. The hand dials the phone number 005 and the voice on the phone tells the correct time. The telephone network ordered the technical solution from Sverdlovsk so that everyone would not run late to work and to dates. The phone clock tells time 24/7. The film shows the technical equipment that tells the time automatically. A man working near the control station of the automatic answering machine.

Director: Vladimir Parvel

Keywords: time | making a phone call | date | city streets | man | woman | telecommunication worker | telephone central office | accuracy | innovations | View all »

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Main Data

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Production Firm(s) Kunstiliste- ja Kroonikafilmide Tallinna Kinostuudio
Color bw
Sound sound
Film Category Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991
Text / Dialogue Estonian
Duration 00:53

Crew

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Director Vladimir Parvel
Cinematographer Hans Roosipuu
Content Editor Peedu Ojamaa

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