An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film on the Telephone. By Maria Popova Barely a decade into the age of the social web, it’s already difficult to remember — or imagine — how the world operated before it.
As difficult, perhaps, as it was for kids in the 1960s to imagine a world before the telephone. We Learn About The Telephone is a 1965 educational film that traces the history of human communication, from the messenger runners of the Ancient world to Native Americans’ smoke signals to the invention of the telegraph and telephone, and explores the science and technology of how the phone actually works, from the anatomy of speech production to the physics of sound waves.
The Best Short Films. Thursday by Matthias Hoegg. In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant—until we disrupt them.
This film is about patterns. It starts as just another Thursday in a not-so-distant future where we meet a regular working man who begins the day with the typical routines of daily life: morning alarm, coffee, work. The point is made clear that, though this future may have new technology, day to day life doesn’t stray far from today.