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I love this! I still have the 1949 telegram that my grandpa George sent President Truman, thanking him for allowing refugees from WWII to immigrate from Europe to the United States.
Traditionally charged by the word, telegrams were kept concise, and directors love using them in period filmmaking as urgent narrative devices. If you work on a film that’s set at any point between 1790 and 1970 you’ll probably make one, too. (I’m sorry that the same can’t be said for the humble facsimile: I can’t recall any 1980s movie …