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Film, Video Adventure in Telezonia Telezonia / Inventory title: Adventures in Telezonia / Inventory title: Telephone helps

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About this Item

Title

  • Adventure in Telezonia

Other Title

  • Telezonia
  • Inventory title: Adventures in Telezonia
  • Inventory title: Telephone helps

Summary

  • "Bobby finds his lost dog with the help of the residents of Telezonia, who teach him how to use directory assistance, party lines, and proper phone manners."--National Film Preservation Foundation.

Names

  • Burns, Ruth Snow, contributor
  • Baird, Bil, 1904-1987, puppeteer
  • Baird, Cora, puppeteer
  • Steiner, George, 1900-1967, composer
  • Bil Baird Marionette (Firm), production company
  • American Telephone and Telegraph Company, sponsor, film distributor

Created / Published

  • United States : [American Telephone and Telegraph Company], 1949.

Headings

  • -  Telephone etiquette
  • -  Telephone
  • -  Etiquette for children and teenagers

Genre

  • Puppet films
  • Sponsored films
  • Educational films
  • Short films
  • Fiction films

Notes

  • -  Puppetry: Bil Baird, Cora Baird.
  • -  Composer, George Steiner.
  • -  Sources used: National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed March 27, 2024; J. Fred MacDonald inventory; AFI acquisition folders; Prelinger, R. The field guide to sponsored films, 2006, p. 2.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 18 min.) : sd., col.

Source Collection

  • American Archives of the Factual Film Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024601072

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Burns, Ruth Snow, Contributor, Bil Baird, Cora Baird, and Sponsor American Telephone And Telegraph Company. Adventure in Telezonia. composeds by Steiner, George, , produceds by Bil Baird Marionette Uction Company [United States: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601072/.

APA citation style:

Burns, R. S., Baird, B., Baird, C. & American Telephone And Telegraph Company, S. (1949) Adventure in Telezonia. Steiner, G., comp, , Bil Baird Marionette Uction Company, prod [United States: American Telephone and Telegraph Company] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601072/.

MLA citation style:

Burns, Ruth Snow, Contributor, et al. Adventure in Telezonia. comp by Steiner, George, , prod by Bil Baird Marionette Uction Company [United States: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024601072/>.