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A ten-minute reconstruction of the November 21, 1980 MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas: the spark in The Deli, a guest who walks out of the casino just ahead of the flames, a guest on the 21st floor who never hears an alarm, and how smoke killed 61 people in a tower the fire never reached.
From one shouted sentence in a Boston workshop in 1876 to a phone on the kitchen wall, in about seventy years: the first call, the first exchange, the first operators, the switch built by an undertaker, party lines, the dial and the keypad. With a note on what is documented and what is legend.
Follow signal →The humming maze behind chain link was the neighborhood's voltage-changing, fault-isolating traffic interchange.
Follow signal →The giant tank over the neighborhood stored water, pressure, and a surprisingly elegant answer to morning showers.
Follow signal →When the lights died, one beige corded phone kept working because its power came from somewhere else.
Follow signal →A nature documentary about a cell tower pretending to be a tree, a horror trailer about an invisible dictation bubble, and eight more short films. Every one is based on something that actually happened.
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