Plane Talk

[tallguy58]

Forgive me if this has been discussed, but being an airplane junkie I saw this on You Tube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10wAV9rZKM


Turn out it's a film on telecommunication by A T & T. Look out for the nice 10 button sets and the numerous weird public phones that were all the rage in '65.
That call to the airline would not be routed to Charlotte today but probably Bangladesh.

Enjoy!

[Butch Harlow]

I had never seen that, thanks it was awesome. The 60's were so modern!

[Jim Stettler]

That is worth watching.
Thanks,
Jim S.

[MaximRecoil]

They show a few 554s from 5:57 to 6:12 and their switch hooks are stuck in the down position.

[Pourme]

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I like the 10 button phone.

I've never seen that rotor dial weather speaker thingy before...wonder when it will show up on EBAY?

Thanks for sharing!

[jsowers]

The announcer through the whole thing was Larry Thor. He was from Canada and all over the radio and in the movies in the 1950s as the announcer on Suspense and starring in Broadway Is My Beat on radio and he played mostly bit parts in movies as an announcer or a police detective or ship's captain. Much of his work is uncredited, but his voice was so distinctive that you can just tell it was Larry Thor.

This movie was fun to see and it's amazing what computers have done for air travel since 1965.

[compubit]

I was intrigued by the 3 spot panel payphones...

I would think that one could "build" a rotary "dial-the-weather" psystem using asterisk (or maybe some other computer-based method)

J

[Jim Stettler]

I was intrigued by the 3 spot panel payphones...


J

So was I.  I liked the skinny one better than the standard width.
JMO,
Jim S.

[FABphones]

I would think that one could "build" a rotary "dial-the-weather" psystem using asterisk (or maybe some other computer-based method)
J

I was thinking how the weatherboard in the clip worked back then. My guess is it had three (or four) standard messages and early each morning some guy had to open up the back and flick each individual destinations switch to one of three or four tape recordings. 'Sunny' ' Rainy' 'Windy' 'Snowy'....
I would have liked to have seen inside it.

Nowadays, we don't need to build anything ourselves.
We can just ask Doogle: 'I'm sorry, but my team are working on that'...   
Ah. Perhaps not.