Bell System / American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T) educational film. Explains the history of communications, from smoke signals to modern telephones.

A young man sketches a generic human who takes us back through history to show us how humans developed a need to communicate and the devices to do so. Then shows us how telephones enable the modern mid-Sixties world. Part-animated by the master John Hubley. Directed by Jean Yarbrough.