American Experience: The Great Transatlantic Cable
by Peter Jones
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Actor: Linda HuntDirector: Peter Jones
Brand: PBS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: Eye opening documentary on the transatlantic telephone cable
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary is an eye-opening story of laying a cable across the Atlantic in the 1850s...a process that was successfully completed 13 years later. Little did I know that a penny was soldered to the cable in the middle of the Atlantic for good luck! This story is from a time when the lightbulb had yet to arrive in homes and a paper (yes, paper!) merchant was crazy enough, motivated enough, and hopeful enough that he could do it. He went broke in the process, lost all his friends, but finally got the cable to work 13 years later. When it did work, he and his disillusioned backers made more money in the venture that anyone could have guessed. This was also the first steps of the company we today know as AT&T. Sadly enough, this guy (Mr. Fields) lost most of his personal fortune on Wall Street a few years later. In my books, this is a classic story of what makes us a nation of risk takers, adventurers, and disbelievers in impossibilities. While there might be little reason to own this exceptionally-well made documentary, it is surely worth borrowing from your neighborhood store and watching.
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