https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bf518884-8028-46bb-aaf0-cd82e8342a43 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD Dating to 1967, "Here is Tomorrow" is an AT&T produced film about the life of Alexander Graham Bell. The film opens in a field in front of an old airplane from the 1920’s. Reporters are interviewing the bearded owner of an airplane the Silver Dart that has stayed in the air for some time. Casey Baldwin is introduced :31. The aileron, hinged wing tip is demonstrated 1:13. Steerable three wheeled undercarriage 1:28. The covered cockpit 1:37. The bearded man is Alexander Graham Bell 1:41. "Here is Tomorrow. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell." 2:00. Produced and directed by Jack Denove 2:10. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia 2:18. The home where Bell spent his adult summers 2:30. Mr. Bell experiments with kite flying in anticipation of motorized flight 3:00. The people of Canada revere Alexander Graham Bell 3:23. The Alexander Graham Bell Museum 3:35. Working models of his huge kites are hung from the rafters 3:55. A model of The Silver Dart 4:05. A functioning model of The Silver Dart flies over Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia in 1950. Jet planes fly overhead 4:35. Mr. Bell pines over his lost infant son 5:00. Mr. Bell develops a machine whose principles are used today in “iron lung” technology 5:21. Bell designs the first hydrofoil concept 5:40. A device that transmits speech on a beam of light 5:55. Theory of the helicopter. Work on desalinization, air-conditioning, etc. Washington DC and the epitaph of Alexander Graham Bell is, “Citizen of the United States of America”. The home of Dr. Bell 6:40. News headline, “President Garfield shot!” 6:46. President near death. Dr. Bell visits the White House with a device that he developed with the hope that it would help trace the assassin’s bullet and help save the presidents life 7:03. A telephone probe is brought to the White House. The president dies 7:40. Flag at half-mast 7:37. However, Dr. Bell’s device, a forerunner of x-ray, locates the bullet lodged in the President’s brain 7:45. The original Smithsonian Institution 7:57. Davenport’s electric motor 8:11. Bell’s telephone, Edison’s incandescent lamp 8:15. Edison’s phonograph and another phonograph, this one the brainchild of Dr. Bell 8:25. Dr. Bell improves on Thomas Edison’s phonograph and explains how 9:12. Dr. Bell plays his phonograph for an investor 9:48. Bell donates all proceeds to the Alexander Graham Bell Association For the Deaf 10:00. Farmhouse in Branford, Ontario 10:31. Dr. Bell, as a young man, sitting on the sofa sick with tuberculosis 10:40. He beats the disease 10:53. Dr. Bell and his parents 11:20. Dr. Bell is going to Boston to lecture and tells his mother, who is deaf 11:50. The Clarke School for the Deaf 11:59. Dr. Bell teaches at The Boston School for the Deaf 12:45. Dr. Bell is introduced to a deaf, young boy named Georgie 13:20. Salem Massachusetts 13:45. Dr. Bell arrives at the house of Mary Sanders. Georgie’s grandmother invites Dr. Bell to live at the home and take care of him financially for helping her grandson 14:00. Dr. Bell teaches the child to talk. He works in a basement laboratory 14:23. He’s creating a “harmonic telegraph” 15:29. Georgie’s father, Mr. Sanders hears “I love you” from his son Georgie, for the first time 16:15. Cambridge, the home of the Gardiner Hubbard’s 17:25. Dr. Bell plays piano 17:40. Boston, MA, Bunker Hill, Old North Church, Paul Revere and the birthplace of the telephone – The John F. Kennedy Government Center 19:30. Dr. Bill hires Tom Watson as his assistant 19:45. Speech over a wire 20:25. June 2, 1875 Dr. Bell hears a twang from Tom Watson’s transmitter in the other room 20:50. Mr. Hubbard is angry that Dr. Bell wishes to pursue the telephone instead of the harmonic telegraph 21:53. Dr. Bell is forced to choose between his telephone and Mabel, his fiancée, Mr. Hubbard’s daughter 22:39. Dr. Bell’s new lab is in his living quarters on Exeter Place. March 10, 1876 around midnight, the first words spoken over wire are heard, “Mr. Watson. Come here, I want you!” Home of the National Geographic Society 24:50. People talk on the telephone 25:16. Bell Laboratories, 24:40. His legacy: “Improve what one sees, benefit the world.” At 74 years, Dr. Bell speaks to a group of telephone people 26:25. His famous quote: "Here is Tomorrow." Written by Charles Bennett and Jack Denove. Claude Woolman as Alexander Graham Bell. Tom Hatton, Richard Jury, Robert Cornthwaite, Tole Avery, Antony Eustrel. Narrated by Barry Sullivan. Music by Nelson Riddle. Production by Jack Denove Productions, Inc. AT&T and Associated Companies. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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