Word: splicers
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...Graham Bell in 1876, were still state of the art. And Seidenberg was the guy you might have spotted crawling into manholes in New York City and cheerfully splicing phone lines together deep underground--peeling back the rubber coating on the finger-thick wires, laying the cable on the splicer and then gently pressing the copper wires together. He made a living wage; they called him a splicer's assistant...
Ever since their flickering beginnings, movies have been fair game for the scissors and splicer. In 1903 the distributors of The Great Train Robbery advised nickelodeons that a startling shot of a gunman firing directly at the audience could be inserted at either the beginning or the end of the film. D.W. Griffith's epic Intolerance (1916), which blended parables from four epochs into a "film fugue," bombed at the box office; so Griffith extracted and recut two of the stories and released them as separate films. Too soon, producers were applying the cleaver of their judgment to good...
...commission's greatest essay was to hire a helicopter to banner the winning numbers through the skies over Cleveland. Strapped to a utility pole, a telephone-cable splicer named Robert...
...plans to consult authorities of the Church of England, leading rabbis, and Dr. Billy Graham. Where differences exist, De Laurentiis will shoot alternate scenes. Hence, in the cutting room at judgment day, the film editors may include a Douay man, a King James man, a Revised Standard splicer...
...tireless executive, Fred Kappel first went to work for the Bell System in 1924 as a $25-a-week groundman fresh out of the University of Minnesota, where he helped pay his way by drumming in a jazz band. Kappel soon ran the gamut of line-crew jobs from splicer to circuit tester, by 1934 was a full-fledged engineer in the Nebraska-South Dakota area. He did so well there that he was called into Northwestern Bell's headquarters at Omaha, where he was promoted to vice president in 1942. Seven years later he was shifted again, this...