Telephone lines are constructed between fire lookout stations in the national forests of the United States. Poles are creosoted, placed in position, and bolstered with guide wires. Wire is reeled out on the ground along the right-of-way and then raised on the poles by linemen. Includes shots of various methods of attaching the line to poles and to trees, of installing insulators, and of splicing wire.

National Archives Identifier: 7410

Local Identifier: 33.525

Creator(s): Department of Agriculture. Federal Extension Service. (01/02/1954 - 04/13/1970) (Most Recent)

From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled ca. 1915 - ca. 1959

* Record Group 33: Records of the Extension Service, 1888 - 2000

Level of Description: Item

Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images

This item was produced or created: 1938

The creator compiled or maintained the series between: ca. 1915 - ca. 1959

General Note(s): Credits: Director, Don Bennett; story, H.R. Kylie; narrator, Bill Coyle; photographer, W.R. McCarthy; sound, Reuben Ford.

Use Restriction(s): Undetermined

Sound Type: Sound

Accession Number(s): 1286

Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s):

* Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. (07/01/1905 - ), Producer