Author Topic: The CRPF "Old Phones in Movies & TV" Compilation (Read 392339 times)

andre_janew · « **Reply #840 on:** March 18, 2020, 05:38:46 PM »

I do believe that many, if not all, phones on Columbo were Design Line models.

Duffy · « **Reply #841 on:** May 10, 2020, 06:25:20 AM »

I have no information on this picture. I came across it when surfing the net.

FABphones · « **Reply #842 on:** May 10, 2020, 11:24:12 AM »

Yikes, early CGI.
1970’s TV show/advert? Does anyone recognize it?

Key2871 · « **Reply #843 on:** May 10, 2020, 11:34:39 AM »

Reminds me of the recent giant Princes models on eBay.

Nick in Manitou · « **Reply #844 on:** May 10, 2020, 11:57:50 AM »

The image is from a TV show with the Carpenters singing an old Marvelettes song, Beechwood 4-5789.

You can find the video (if you really want to) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7nXagbBkuw

As soon as I saw the number at the top of the photo, the Marvelettes' version started playing in my head!

Nick

Duffy · « **Reply #845 on:** May 10, 2020, 12:18:40 PM »

Quote from: Nick in Manitou on May 10, 2020, 11:57:50 AM

The image is from a TV show with the Carpenters singing an old Marvelettes song, Beechwood 4-5789.

You can find the video (if you really want to) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7nXagbBkuw

As soon as I saw the number at the top of the photo, the Marvelettes' version started playing in my head!

Nick

Thanks for posting that, mystery is solved!

Key2871 · « **Reply #846 on:** May 10, 2020, 12:54:55 PM »

I don't know if anyone has noticed, But that phone is modular. Take a close look,at the front behind Karen and you'll see a modular jack.
Now I wasn't aware modular was around when that video was shot. It must have been done in the mid 70s or so..

Duffy · « **Reply #847 on:** May 10, 2020, 01:27:07 PM »

Quote from: Key2871 on May 10, 2020, 12:54:55 PM

I don't know if anyone has noticed, But that phone is modular. Take a close look,at the front behind Karen and you'll see a modular jack.
Now I wasn't aware modular was around when that video was shot. It must have been done in the mid 70s or so..

If you look even closer you will notice the it is only a special effects picture that was likely displayed on a green screen behind her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key

Key2871 · « **Reply #848 on:** May 10, 2020, 01:50:07 PM »

Well yea I knew that had to be blown up special effects because there are no phones that size, especially modular.

Duffy · « **Reply #849 on:** May 10, 2020, 01:57:22 PM »

Had it been done in this era, I'm sure it would like the real deal.

19and41 · « **Reply #850 on:** June 15, 2020, 03:23:15 PM »

Something I read today made me think about this bit from The Beverly Hillbillies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OzORTen_k

Key2871 · « **Reply #851 on:** June 15, 2020, 03:36:01 PM »

Lol, I remember that now.. Oh how funny.
Edit, I remember back when I saw that episode, and not knowing a lot about phones still knew that was a bad idea being way up on the pole... Ahh the memories.

TelePlay · « **Reply #852 on:** July 12, 2020, 01:05:15 AM »

The Birds: Nine minutes into the movie, Tippi Hedren calls out on a WE Moss Green 500 with a gray coiled handset cord.

"The Birds is a 1963 American horror - thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California, over the course of a few days."

countryman · « **Reply #853 on:** July 12, 2020, 03:08:26 AM »

At least she seems to use the rubber side of the pencil to turn the dial. Other users were notorious to scratch the number ring with sharp objects

19and41 · « **Reply #854 on:** July 12, 2020, 07:47:14 AM »

I had guessed a while ago that the difference in hue of the cords on the phone was incident to age. Those pictures prove the guess wrong. It must've been how the materials accepted the coloring agent.

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