"A MILLION INVISIBLE MESSENGERS" 1959 CB RADIO CITIZENS BAND PROMOTIONAL FILM COMMUNICATIONS 45574

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This color promotional film "A Million Invisible Messengers - Two Way Mobile Radio Serves an Expanding Economy" is about CB Radios/Two Way Radios and how necessary they are for public safety, and how they promote economic growth. The film was financed by the Electronic Industries Association Bendix Corporation, General Electric, Motorola and RCA, which all produced radios. At the time, the EIA was lobbying the frequency spectrum regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with respect to 25 to 890 MC frequency allocations. The citizens band or CB radio service began in 1945 to permit citizens a radio band for personal communication. Most of the footage is still images live action and animation. Copyright 1959.

Opening titles: A Million Invisible Messengers (:07-:55) Clock tower bell chimes at midnight. Police car is stationary with two policemen in it. One uses a CB radio to contact another. Police have a man cuffed. Map of the United States (:56-2:10). A woman calls the city gas company, there's a gas odor in her home. The plant contest a person to go smell the odor. Firetrucks at the scene of a blaze. A fireman uses a CB radio. The police are notified. Firemen at the scene of a fire. Hoses spray water to bring down the flames. CB Radios are vital. Fire man overcome by smoke gets sent to the hospital in an ambulance (2:11-4:07). Airwaves are busy. Antennas fire off signals to vehicles . Taxi cabs also use CB Radios. A cab driver radios in an erratic driver who hit two parked cars. The police send out the information. The police with public assistance have arrested the drunk driver (4:08-5:58). Coordination is vital. Antenna tower. How CB radios are useful is explained. Trucks in the early morning ready with their loads. A truck comes in to pick up a load of meat. A truck breaks down but radios it in, he gets help right away. Trains also use the communication. A ranger contacts fire crews as he sees smoke in the forest. Firemen move into position and the fire is under control (5:59-9:18). Logging work continues in the forest. Blue Hills Farm. A woman contacts her husband via CB Radio. A doctor comes to look at a sick animal. He does it and then radios in for his next assignment. The doctor drives. He passes a new highway project (9:19-11:14). The doctor passes by a rancher. He drives on. Men working on the road. A serviceman replenishes a coke machine at a gas station. Oil wells, refineries, trucks. An oil pipeline. A drilling barge used to drill for oil (11:15-13:17). Off shore oil platform. Pipelines. Refineries. Trucks bring gasoline. Gas trucks. Lumber trucks, laundry trucks. Tractor trailers bring everything (13:18-14:50). Police. Power stations. Trucks. Forklifts, tow trucks. Men use CD Radios at work. FCC wants people to use CB Radios. Visiting nurse. Trucks and cars. CB Radio. Radios across the country (14:51-16:54). End credits (16:55-17:07).

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