A fun overview of a service that doesn't exist anymore! This film is all about Western Union. Yes boys and girls, before you cou;d get your money in an instant using their service (well, a couple of hours) WU was your telegraph service. You want a crane? Telegraph it! You want to report news of your wife's birth! By gum, Western Union was the only way! This film details of the many different telegraph services available, and how it gets from one place to another. You can have a private telegraph service if you want to! (Well, you have to be like a bank). Also, again, this film gets into facsimile service, something of which I never knew existed in the 1950's. Very odd to be proven wrong on this one. (Well, it's just very odd to be proven wrong period). Also, the film briefly talks about sending the news by wire, and shows some storms, sports scenes and fires. Watch one of the fire scenes very carefully. Is someone jumping out of a building to their deaths? The camera follows something down, I am not too sure what it is, if it is what I think it is, then wow. "Someone has jumped from the window!" 3 Spuzz 2005-07-04 04:12:48 2005-07-04 04:12:48 I think this was an interesting film. I believe the previous reviewer was right, at about 13:02 into the film there's a structure fire and it does look like someone jumped off a higher floor, difficult to tell for certain but going frame by frame does show what appears to be someone jumping from that burning building. Good film 4 lostnyc 2005-11-08 21:29:52 2005-11-08 21:29:52 2 3.50