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Relentlessly cheerful narration and industrial animation are the highlights of this 1960 newsreel explaining how future telephone technology will bounce calls off artificial satellites. In the meantime, they practice bouncing a New Jersey-to-California call off the moon—and with only a 2.5 second delay on either end!
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Relentlessly cheerful narration and industrial animation are the highlights of this 1960 newsreel explaining how future telephone technology will bounce calls off artificial satellites. In the meantime, they practice bouncing a New Jersey-to-California call off the moon—and with only a 2.5 second delay on either end!
