A FILM BY
CAROLINE MARTEL

EDITED BY
ANNIE JEAN

ADDITIONAL IMAGE EDITING
MATHIEU BOUCHARD-MALO

SOUND EDITING
SYLVAIN BELLEMARE

VOICE
PASCALE MONTPETIT

ONDES MARTENOT
SUZANNE BINET-AUDET

MUSICAL EFFECTS
RENÉ LUSSIER

ONLINE EDITING
DENIS GATHELIER

MIX
CLOVIS GOUAILLIER

STARRING
HELEN, LOUISE, MARGARET, MARGOT, MARYLIN, MOLLEY, MISS MANNERS, MISS VITALITY, MISS NATURALNESS, MISS EXPRESSION, MISS PLEASANTNESS, MISS INTELLIGIBILITY…
AND OTHER FANTASTIC VOICES WITH A SMILE

PRODUCED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
PROGRAMME D’AIDE AUX JEUNES CRÉATEURS,
SOCIÉTÉ DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENTREPRISES CULTURELLES DU QUÉBEC
CANADIAN INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FUND/
FONDS CANADIEN DU FILM ET DE LA VIDÉO INDÉPENDANTS
AIDE AU CINÉMA INDÉPENDANT,
OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA (ONF) /NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA (NFB)
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS/ CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA
CONSEIL DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU QUÉBEC

PRODUCTION
CAROLINE MARTEL

TITLES
LOUISE OVERY

SUBTITLES
CLAUDE DIONNE

FOLEY
GENEVIÈVE LAPOINTE
LISE WEDLOCK

FOLEY RECORDING
DANIEL BISSON

DIALOGUE EDITING
FRÉDÉRIC CLOUTIER

Sustained Support
Eric Breitbart
Claude Forget
Matthew Hodgins
Rick Prelinger

Narration Advice
Jean Charlebois
Emmanuel Dalmenesche
Julie de Lorimier
Annie Jean

Narration Translation
Kathleen Fleming

Legal Counsel
André Denis

Special thanks
Jean-Claude Bustros
Danielle Charlebois
Iain Cook
Anton Fischlin
Jihane Geadah
Marie-Christine Guité
Robin Jackson
Anthony Kinik
Frances Leeming
Monique Létourneau
Philippe Marion
Marie Potvin
Oana Suteu

Everyone at the Technical Research and Development Department of the NFB, especially
Jean-Yves Blaquière, Martine Chamberland, Claude Chevalier, Louis Dupuis, Martine Forget, André Gagnon, Ochelle Greenidge, Phyllis Lewis, Chaz Oliver, Danielle Raymond

Telephone operators of all times
Paule Bélair, Michèle Brouillette, Odette Gagnon, Nellie Gallagher, Rita Giasson, Louise Grenier, Aline Hooper, Nathalie Lévesque, Lise Péclet, Madeleine Simard

All the makers of ephemeral films including those less anonymous, such as
Nell Cox, Budge Crawley, Georges Dunning, Richard Leacock, Peter Pearson, Henri Strauss, Roy Tash

All who attended screenings during the editing process

Sincere gratitude to everyone who made a difference at various stages of the project
Albert Albala, Sherron Anglin, Claude Beaugrand, Gyslain Bergevin, André Bernatchez, Vincent Bonin, Geneviève Bouchard, Nicolas Bourdon, Peter Bringhoff, Daniel Carrière, Randi Cecchine, Sylvain Charbonneau, Vuk Cosic, Jean-Claude Couldbois, Anouk Desgroseilliers, Jacques Duhamel, Louis Dufort, Emmanuelle Demeules, Philippe Falardeau, Pascale Ferland, Patrick Fortin, Noémie Gosselin, Robert Gray, Kathleen Hamel, Joseph Hoppe, Jean Paul Imbeau, Patricia Kearns, Moira Keigher, Stéphanie Lagueux, Jean-François Laprise, Hugo Lalonde, Hugo Latulippe, Eric Lauzon, Nathalie Lemay, Phillip Lewis, Eisha Marjara, Jean-Benoît Martel, Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Marysol Moran, Mark Morgenstern, Chantal Nadeau, William O’Farrel Sr. & Jr., Bénédicte Ouimet, Anne Claire Poirier, Laurence Reynaud, Kim Sawchuk, Lydie Servanin, Jean-Pierre Sévigny, Alexandre Simard, Alexander Solopov, Katarina Soukup, Johanne St-Amant, Marthe Turgeon, George Ungar, Yanick Viau

Very special thanks to my parents and family

Arts and Cultural Industries Promotion Division / Foreign Affairs Canada
Au bon croissant
Bell Canada Telephone Pioneers
Bureau en gros
Chocolats Andrée
Fédération nationale des communications (CSN)
Festivals and international markets/Telefilm Canada
Fuji
General Assembly Production Company
La Patmobile
Librairie L’Écume des jours
Nortel Pioneers
Marko Audio post-production
ONF/NFB-Montréal
Simone de Beauvoir Institute
Studio XX
Syndicat des communications, de l’énergie et du papier (FTQ)
Vision globale

Sources of Inspiration
Régis Debray
Des machines et des âmes (2002)

Ursula Franklin
The Real World of Technology (1990)

ARCHIVES
This film could not have been made without the precious collaboration of
Astral Media
AT&T Archives
Bell Canada
Chisholm Stock Footage
Crawley Films
Library of Congress
National Archives of Canada
National Film Board of Canada
Prelinger Archives
Productions Multivisuelles
SBC Communications Inc.
Telesat Canada
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration