005 tells the time (1961)

Automatic device for informing about the time by telephone.

Staged story about the date between a young girl and a boy. The boy is obviously late since all the clocks in Tallinn show different time. But now there is the solution. The hand dials the phone number 005 and the voice on the phone tells the correct time. The telephone network ordered the technical solution from Sverdlovsk so that everyone would not run late to work and to dates. The phone clock tells time 24/7. The film shows the technical equipment that tells the time automatically. A man working near the control station of the automatic answering machine.

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