How To Dial Your Phone

[Kittybell]

Have you guys seen this? It's really good, and funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDw75mUl6c

[HobieSport]

Yes, I love all the old Bell films.  Especially this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjlLb0tqGs&feature=related

[Dan/Panther]

I love these old films. it's just like the switch to digital T.V. now; "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
They've had dial phones way back, yet these films look like vintage late forties early fifties, why did it take so long for them to make the films ?
We still had operator assisted phone calls where I came from until at least 1956 when we moved from Oneida, New york to California. The phone in my thread about when I was little was still being used by us until 1956.

D/P

[Konrad]

The better quality originals and many more can be found at www.archive.org .  I suspect that old phone DVD on fleabay is just archive.org content.  The patents for talking pictures courtesy of Western Electric

[mienaichizu]

nice, I enjoy watching those old films

[BDM]

The young gal in this one cracks me up....OH, IT'S JUST YUMMY!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjlLb0tqGs&feature=related

Watch toward the end carefully, you'll notice when they're showing how they switch out the manual service, to the dial service. Notice the guy standing in the background with the stopwatch, when they turn the dial service on. He gets bonked by one of the guys pulling the switch connections for dial service. Whooops.

Here's the second part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4v-crPSrj0&feature=channel

[HobieSport]

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