Author Topic: The CRPF "Old Phones in Movies & TV" Compilation (Read 207232 times)

BDM · « **Reply #525 on:** May 30, 2014, 05:32:47 PM »

Paul, she could have tried that on any of my phones

Brinybay, you had me start watching that movie now

Twilight Zone 1960 "A Thing About Machines". Notice the cord is about ready to pull out of the receiver. You could plainly see it move as he moved the phone. Real close to popping right out

BDM · « **Reply #526 on:** June 03, 2014, 12:03:06 AM »

Twilight Zone episode "Night Call". Hey, a D1/202 with a 685A subset

Once you hear it ring, you'll know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKF5YPyvJ-Y

poplar1 · « **Reply #527 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:49:31 AM »

It's a C4 ringer--as in a 685A subset or a 500--but I think in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode it's just a sound track.

It's possible to wire a 202 to a 685A subset using a 5-conductor mounting cord. However, I doubt that 202s with E-type handsets were typically used with 685A subsets. By the time 685As were available (early 50s?), 202s would have had F1- or F4- handsets.

BDM · « **Reply #528 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:59:18 AM »

Dave I should have been more clear. I know it's Hollyweed at it's best using a soudtrack to fit the telephone "sound" of the day

I should call that "KL" number and see if she answers

Heck I have the same first name as her dead fiance

paul-f · « **Reply #529 on:** June 03, 2014, 03:22:32 PM »

Quote from: BDM on June 03, 2014, 10:59:18 AM

I should call that "KL" number and see if she answers

Save your time! They put that number in the movie for a reason.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=5536.msg67326#msg67326

BDM · « **Reply #530 on:** June 03, 2014, 03:37:02 PM »

Darn Paul, you take the fun out of it. I wanted to hear her scream my name like in the end scene, over and over

BDM · « **Reply #531 on:** June 03, 2014, 03:55:14 PM »

BTW around scene 7:40 in the movie, there appears to be a different D1 on her table. She dials it and it very much sounds like a #6 dial as opposed to her other version D1. Just a tid-bit to notice.

Mr. Bones · « **Reply #532 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:32:17 PM »

The Twilight Zone is certainly rife with telephones, often prominently featured in the story / plot. I have several seasons on DVD, and might have seen the others, a time or two-ish. Still watch every evening at 2000, plus break out the discs, or Netflix them, on a daily basis.

One of the reasons is to re-enjoy them, while looking at telephone apparatus. Mostly, they still just beat the vast majority of the pablum, and pure fecal matter that the channels seem to be purveying at present.

Best regards!

poplar1 · « **Reply #533 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:16:13 PM »

Quote from: BDM on June 03, 2014, 03:55:14 PM

BTW around scene 7:40 in the movie, there appears to be a different D1 on her table. She dials it and it very much sounds like a #6 dial as opposed to her other version D1. Just a tid-bit to notice.

Sounds like either a 4H with a stuck pulse pawl or a very early "silent" 5H with phenol pulse pawl.

BDM · « **Reply #534 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:17:15 PM »

Yeah maybe. I just heard the wind-up as she spun that dial to the stop. Reminded me of some #6 dials I've heard.

BDM · « **Reply #535 on:** June 17, 2014, 10:06:07 PM »

TELEFON (1977)

BDM · « **Reply #536 on:** June 26, 2014, 09:18:08 PM »

The Warriors. Payphone with an F1 missing it's number card.

twocvbloke · « **Reply #537 on:** July 08, 2014, 11:30:17 AM »

Spotted this just now while watching the following video on youtube, what looks like a 1A1/1A2 system phone with a gold (probably one of them metal covers) handset, behind the great bird of the galaxy that is Gene Roddenberry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5s-7HN-a1I

Brinybay · « **Reply #538 on:** July 09, 2014, 10:18:26 PM »

Anita and I got hooked on Murdoch Mysteries. Lots of sticks in this series, here's a couple of them. I believe the phone in the third picture is called a "staircase"?

WEBellSystemChristian · « **Reply #539 on:** July 09, 2014, 10:24:35 PM »

Quote from: Brinybay on July 09, 2014, 10:18:26 PM

Anita and I got hooked on Murdoch Mysteries. Lots of sticks in this series, here's a couple of them. I believe the phone in the third picture is called a "staircase"?

I just love how the receiver is always put upside-down on candlesticks. It's annoying, but hilarious at the same time!

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