Operator! AKA Female Telephone Operators (1948)

Ministry of Information public information trailer - Operator! Location unknown. MS man (Richard Massingham) in suit at desk (meant to look like a civil servant) on telephone. Montage of CUs of women’s faces dissolving into one another as he spells out the word telephone giving a piece of information about the job with each letter. Titles: “Operator!“ and “London - apply to the Telephone Staff Controller, Waterloo Bridge House, SE1. Provinces - apply to your local Head Post office.“ NB: item was originally part of Gazette issue 48/17. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1