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The CRPF "Old Phones in Movies & TV" Compilation

Started by HobieSport, November 23, 2008, 01:45:19 AM

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Image 1:
'Carry On Abroad'.   The hotel switchboard (just before it blows up :o).

Image 2:
'Pipkins'.   Hartley Hare holding an upside down AEI Centenary Neophone handset...
...attached to a GPO 332 body.

(Looks like they had to pop the handset cord around the back of his ear to get it to stay in place).
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#901
Joan Crawford. 1939.

Adore that Ivory phone, would love to have one in the collection.

AE 1A ?
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Etienne

#902
A very nice ivory PTT 1924 behind Edwige Feuillère in Robert Siodmak's Mister Flow (1936).

Etienne

#903
Dr Mabuse, der Spieler- 1922
Das Testament des Dr Mabuse, 1933
Both by Fritz Lang

Etienne

Les diaboliques, Henri-Georges Clouzot- 1955
The mother-in-law earpiece is missing

markosjal

Quote from: Jim Stettler on August 10, 2021, 12:53:37 AM
I was told early color phones were created for the film industry. They were shooting in black & white , which seemed silly to me.

Since then I have learned some stuff about early black and white film making.
The main point is it is actually shades of Gray vs B&W.
I studied printing into high school and I learned gray scale . this helped me comprehend the difference.
Shooting B&W as shades of gray is a visual artform. Shooting color is easy.
Sorry I can't be clearer on my explanation.
They say Alfred Hitchcock was very good with shades of gray.
Jim

BTW early color tended to be oversaturated . Shades of gray require much more thought.

I studied Television Production and Engineering at a very early age and I agree with this statement although it may seem vague to some.

Shooting shades of gray , especially with old equipment was far more challenging than more modern color.
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Budavox

I watched an old Indonesian movie from 1954, there is a phone in pyramid shape, but strangely the base is not square.
It has no dial since we still needed to contact the operator to call someone in the 50's here

Does anyone know what phone is this?

rdelius


david@london

#908
Yes, it's a North Electric Galion - (manual version with dial blank)

...more info: http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/north/north-h6.html

Etienne

North Electric Galion, but with a german handset - Siemens Modell 36/ W38 style, if I am correct. Strange.

countryman

It seems to be a bad habit of those North Galions to appear unexpectedly with wrong dials, handsets, what else?
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=24815.0

markosjal

#911
Anyone noticed the phone in the Vicks commercial?

AT first I thought this was just a prop made from a WE 500 but then upon closer inspection the hookswitch plungers appear to be chrome and the hookswich hangers (where the handset rests)  are not squared more like semi hexagonal. No "handle" to carry it like a 500.
Phat Phantom's phreaking phone phettish

paul-f

We have all seen gouged porcelain dial number plates with damage due to subscribers dialing with tools like pens, sticks, screwdrivers, etc.

The film Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947) shows one of the more unusual ways they could be damaged.

https://youtu.be/Jn_l-Ja0cWg?t=1846 

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paul-f

1938 - The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Bogart tracing a phone call using a homemade device implanted in a D-mounting.

Amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEFt1u4dQOo
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Perry Mason, the original TV series.

32:31 into Season 2, Episode 8, The Case of the Jilted Jockey (1958).

A very nice 354 with black painted hook.