Illustrates the Bell System's efforts to improve long distance transmission, using as an example Bell Laboratories' studies in speech and hearing. Footage of scientists at Bell laboratories recording a man speaking a simple statement, then passing through an analyzing filter which is then recorded on a spool of paper. CUs of the spectrogram being recorded on the paper. The speech sounds form waveforms on the paper, and a paper tape is punched with holes and that info is transferred to magnetic tape.