For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications. The seminar itself involved a lot of films and multimedia ...
atttechchannelWatch a new video from the AT&T Archives every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at techchannel.att.com These films (strung together into one film here) were originally made for the annual Skytop conference of Bell Labs executives, and were shown over a series of days during the conference. They were ...
atttechchannelSee more videos from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com In this film, Walter H. Brattain, Nobel Laureate in Physics, presents an introductory college-level lecture on the physics of semiconductors. He demonstrates by experiment such semiconductor properties as thermal EMF, photo EMF, and re...
atttechchannelSee more from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com The goal of this film was to aid in reducing customer dialing irregularities by demonstrating the correct way to use the dial telephone. It documents the shift between operator-based connections (which were on the way out) and having to dial ...
atttechchannelFor more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com In 1961, the digital future was just starting to come to fruition. And the Bell System had a number of products that had either just come onto the market, or were incipient, that implemented these new computer technologies. In December 19...
atttechchannelFor more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com Subtitled "Our Kids/Our Schools/Our Business." The thesis for this film is that kids — in 1976 — were much more isolated from the world of work than that of the previous generation, and that the community needed to pay more attention to t...
atttechchannelSee more from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com The workplace safety film has a long history, dating back at least to the 1920s. Part of employee training, this type of film was frequently a supplement to in-person, on-the-job training. This film, Limits, from 1980, shows a few fictional, ...
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See more from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com Mr. Digit explains the change to all-number calling in this 1961 film starring the then-well-known radio and television team, Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce ("Ethel and Albert"). They portray a couple coming home from vacation to find their time-ho...
atttechchannelNew video from the AT&T Archives every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at techchannel.att.com Viewtron was AT&T's second attempt at a telephone-based information system that fed data to a terminal in the user's home. The first was EIS, from 1979. It was tested in a few regional markets, including th...
atttechchannelFor more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com The Hawthorne studies took place in a Western Electric plant back from 1924 to 1932. In the studies, employees were monitored for whether they worked better/faster under different lighting conditions. It turned out the results were irrele...
atttechchannelSee more from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com Directed by Carroll Ballard (Never Cry Wolf, The Black Stallion), The Hello Machine is a short, wordless film-poem, in which he chronicles the building of an entire ESS Mainframe. It's one of the best films in the AT&T Archives, a poetic musi...
atttechchannelSee more video from technology conferences at techchannel.att.com Patrick McCanna of AT&T talks about mobility security incidents and trends. This talk was presented as part of the 2011 AT&T Cyber Security Conference. It was originally recorded on May 18th, 2011, at AT&T R&D South in Middletown, NJ
atttechchannelFor more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com This is the second (long lost!) film that Jim Henson made for the Bell Data Communications Seminar in 1963. (More on the Seminar and the first film, Robot, at bit.ly Charlie Magnetico stars Henson's first robot puppet, as well as his coll...
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