A promotional material by the Companhia Telefônica Brasileira (CTB), a major telephone company that provided services in the Southeast region of Brazil, mostly
Rio and São Paulo (but also covered parts of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo), and here producer Jean Manzon and crew deal with the fact that the company was entering
the stock market and clients were being invited to buy shares from it. That was the telephonic explosion of its time.
Though existed ever since Emperor Pedro II created the first communications company in the late 1800's due to the telegraph, the company went through major chances of names and adding new forms of communications. In the early 1970's, a couple of years after this movie release the company was taken over by the major national system of communications and now it's all covered by Anatel (now expanded due to internet systems).
It's ridiculously short and quick but it's one of the earlies Manzon colored documentaries, fun for nostalgic facts and not so real and simple when it comes to show the reality of having a telephone back in the day. It was expensive to get a line, it wasn't so accessible for many people despite the millions of lines and technological systems available. The doc makes it seem to easy and effective, but it was a problematic thing. 6/10.
Though existed ever since Emperor Pedro II created the first communications company in the late 1800's due to the telegraph, the company went through major chances of names and adding new forms of communications. In the early 1970's, a couple of years after this movie release the company was taken over by the major national system of communications and now it's all covered by Anatel (now expanded due to internet systems).
It's ridiculously short and quick but it's one of the earlies Manzon colored documentaries, fun for nostalgic facts and not so real and simple when it comes to show the reality of having a telephone back in the day. It was expensive to get a line, it wasn't so accessible for many people despite the millions of lines and technological systems available. The doc makes it seem to easy and effective, but it was a problematic thing. 6/10.