Personalities: various shots of personalities sitting at a desk during opening ceremonies of the Atlantic cable, speaking in telephones, at a transmitting station, other VIP's talking into a radio-telephone. Shots of the captain of the cable layer "HMS Monarch" on the bridge, in the radio room, talking over the radio-telephone. MS of Douglas Bowie, president of the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, speaking to a battery of microphones from the deck of a ship.