About the party line portion. My great grandma lived in a three flat building in the city and when the building got these phones, all the tenants were on the same line 😂 so the phones would ring and if it was for someone else they would just shout through the stairwell “HEY! PICK UP SO AND SO IS ON THE PHONE” My grandpa said it was super annoying when he was a kid 😂😂 I can only imagine lol
A 1954 film ! Gee! I was born at the beginning of 1956.This is why I found that the system introduced by ATT was very modern compared to Bell’s. The 7 digits dialing protocol introduced in this movie was in effect in many communities until recently. The dialing system was based on clics. If you didn’t have a telephone with a dialer, you could still benefit from the system by sending the clics a different way. For instance, the switch on which the handset was resting was a clicker. I did it several times: calling numbers without dialing them but by clicking them.
The introduction of dial phones allowed one to make obscene phone calls without a nosey operator listening in, and the calls could not be traced! Bring on the heavy breathing!
Your comment has been sitting here for six years, I thought it was high time it got an upvote. Besides, I'm probably one of the few people who understood it. 😁
They were so much slower than touch tone dialing, because the number actually got read on the back spin. You had to bring it all the way around. the take your finger completely out, then do the same with the next number Not so bad when most cities had 4 or 5 digit phone numbers but a real bitch when we got to 7 digit numbers and the area code for out of town calls
Imagine while she speaks, come to stage and say " Look what I have in my hand (Iphone/Android ). I don't need to rotate , Just Tap" but then oh crap No Service.
Rotary phones were not so great when trying to be the first caller of a radio show's contest where you needed to answer the radio host's riddle and win money. The dialing was sooooooo...slowwwwww!!!
Verizon is doing the same. One of my coworkers worked for ATT and another Verizon and they said that they had to train people overseas. They both left the respective companies after that.
Lady, that last number is a zero, not an O, to be confused with the Letter “O”. 🙄 You sure took your time to test dial your phone number; what happened to that ugly klaxon sound that we used to get when we delaying the dial? 🤨
Suzanne did a great job!! Now I know how to use dial-up, can't wait to get it!!
About the party line portion. My great grandma lived in a three flat building in the city and when the building got these phones, all the tenants were on the same line 😂 so the phones would ring and if it was for someone else they would just shout through the stairwell “HEY! PICK UP SO AND SO IS ON THE PHONE” My grandpa said it was super annoying when he was a kid 😂😂 I can only imagine lol
A 1954 film ! Gee! I was born at the beginning of 1956.This is why I found that the system introduced by ATT was very modern compared to Bell’s. The 7 digits dialing protocol introduced in this movie was in effect in many communities until recently.
The dialing system was based on clics. If you didn’t have a telephone with a dialer, you could still benefit from the system by sending the clics a different way. For instance, the switch on which the handset was resting was a clicker. I did it several times: calling numbers without dialing them but by clicking them.
In the 50s and 60s during my childhood in London we had dial direct telephones
The introduction of dial phones allowed one to make obscene phone calls without a nosey operator listening in, and the calls could not be traced! Bring on the heavy breathing!
BRRR BRRR
Your comment has been sitting here for six years, I thought it was high time it got an upvote. Besides, I'm probably one of the few people who understood it. 😁
I actually wish I had a rotary, they look nice c:
DONT YOU DARE COMMENT ON HERE >:C
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They were so much slower than touch tone dialing, because the number actually got read on the back spin.
You had to bring it all the way around. the take your finger completely out, then do the same with the next number
Not so bad when most cities had 4 or 5 digit phone numbers but a real bitch when we got to 7 digit numbers and the area code for out of town calls
@Jai Latrease big brain reply
I could probably get an actual western electric handset at this point lmao
Old comment but some places sell modern rotary phones but the issue is that no one really has house phones anymore especially in cities.
Get it right, people, zeros are not o's and vice versa.
So when are these being released?
Getting too expensive to maintain old 16mm film
I think you missed it Rip Van Winkle.
8:15 "10 rings" well, that's a suggestion that has fallen by the wayside. better answer in 3 rings or it goes to voice mail, or the caller hangs up.
When people could remember phone numbers in their heads.
You can’t remember your number?
Imagine while she speaks, come to stage and say " Look what I have in my hand (Iphone/Android ). I don't need to rotate , Just Tap"
but then oh crap No Service.
The numeral “oh”? What number is that? Sometime between 1954 and today we must’ve started using the word zero. 🤔
it has always been zero. lazy people say "oh"
Fewer syllables to just say "oh".
Rotary phones were not so great when trying to be the first caller of a radio show's contest where you needed to answer the radio host's riddle and win money. The dialing was sooooooo...slowwwwww!!!
“Sarah....Sarah?...
Originally released in 1954.
really ironic as now ATT is dialing back on US workers and having them literally train their non native english speaking replacements.
Verizon is doing the same. One of my coworkers worked for ATT and another Verizon and they said that they had to train people overseas. They both left the respective companies after that.
oh shut up ya racists
This is too confusing, can't we just do voice command?
People from them would be sharply gobsmacked if they could see today's.
Hey lady! Stop saying the "numeral oh"! She's probably not around anymore, so my apologies. RIP
Lady, that last number is a zero, not an O, to be confused with the Letter “O”. 🙄 You sure took your time to test dial your phone number; what happened to that ugly klaxon sound that we used to get when we delaying the dial? 🤨
Oh blah blah