Eves Wireless (1922)
Bless us, they re never still always up to something new. And Eve s latest invasion is in the wireless world Two women walk towards the camera on a city street. They stop beside a fire hydrant (this is presumably the United States of America). C, U of the women winding a wire around the top of the fire hydrant. One of the women holds a small box. It s Eve s portable wireless phone and won t hubby have a time when he has to carry one L, S of the women one holds the box and the other puts up an umbrella presumably this acts as an aerial as a wire comes from the handle of the umbrella to the fire hydrant. The women stand together and the woman holding the umbrella puts an ear piece against her ear. M, S of a woman at a telephone exchange holding a microphone or stick telephone. She speaks then turns around to a wind up gramophone. She winds it, places the needle on the record and holds the microphone or mouthpiece to the record. The two women smile and chat they are listening to the
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