“Mr Bell 1947”, “Alexander Graham Bell & Telephone”,

“Raymond Edward Johnson as Mr. Bell”,

“Shows Alexander Graham Bell working with his deaf pupils and experimenting with the telephone and the wax cylinder record for the phonograph. His wide interests, which included aeronautics and the National Geographic Society, are also described.”

“In 1947, the Bell System honored the 100th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s birth with a long (for a Bell System film) biopic. The half-hour film starred Raymond Edward Johnson as Bell and Mason Adams as Thomas A. Watson. The film reenacts Bell’s daily life during the period in which he invented the telephone — the mid-1870s. It’s a fairly conventional, idealized view of Bell, portraying him as highly-respected, hard-working and charitable. He is shown as a leader in his community, speaking out against injustices being visited on the deaf and frequently speaking out prophetically about the telephone: “And then I see its lines and poles marching thousands of miles, connecting the head office of every city in the land to the head office of every other city. And then I see perhaps, in the next century, the tiniest, farthest, hamlet, woven into the wire fabric, doctors summoned, disasters met and overcome.””

“Bell centennial picture. Boston in the 1870s provides the historical background for this film on the life and work of the inventor of the telephone. Cast includes well-known feature players”