Just watched this educational live action/animated short on Mark Evanier's blog. In it, a man tells his nephew and niece about the telephone, its uses, and how people originally communicated before its invention. They also visit a police station where the superior there explains how to call the operator for emergencies. The live action part was directed by Jean Yarbrough best known to me for helming Abbott & Costello in some movies and their television series. The animated part was by John Hubley. Those parts are pretty amusing especially knowing that the voices were provided by Mel Blanc and Paul Frees. The little girl is credited to one Pam Ferden but according to Evanier, it's actually Pam Ferdin who later did the voice of Lucy in the animated Charlie Brown specials and then played Felix Unger's daughter on the TV series version of "The Odd Couple". If you don't get too bored by the somewhat static live action scenes, We Learn About the Telephone is still a little effective learning film about what the communication device was like before cell phones eliminated the use of wires.