THE LAST WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM

After 162 years of dots and dashes, Western Union sent its final telegram on January 27, 2006. A quiet faux-archival reconstruction of the moment the world stopped sending telegrams.

A weekly archival-documentary channel quietly cataloging the last surviving instance of a vanishing North American everyday ritual — the last pay phone in Times Square, the last Blockbuster, the last Crown Vic police cruiser.