Warffum 22.05.62

1962

27m

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Overview

Promotional film for the former Dutch post and telecom company PTT. The occasion was the complete automation of the Dutch telephone network on 22 May 1962. Warffum in the province of Friesland was the last village to be connected. The film follows a number of people in various parts of the country as they make phone calls. The wife of a pastry chef in Maastricht reports a malfunction; an accountant in Amsterdam calls his girlfriend to say he’s absconded with the cash; and an engineer at the delta hydraulic works receives a call telling him that he’s now a father. The PTT’s engineer, working at the central switchboard in Utrecht, links all these scenes together. The film gives a great impression of the prim-and-proper Netherlands of the 1950s and early ’60s, with its sweet, bouncy ’50s style and the appropriate voice-over commentary.

Status: Released

Language: NL

Production Information

Production Companies

Spectrum Film

Production Countries

Netherlands

Spoken Languages

Dutch

Quick Facts

Release Date	May 23, 1962
Status	Released
Language	NL

Cast

Key Crew

Louis van Gasteren

Director

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