"A MIRACLE FOR MRS. SMITH" HOW THE TELEPHONE WORKS WESTERN ELECTRIC BELL SYSTEM NETWORK 64414

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  • @yodservant
    @yodservant 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Fun blast from the past, my dad worked for Bell Labs in the late 50s, he was a semiconductor physicist who eventually started his own high tech company in 1977, Datacube in Peabody Massachusetts

  • @cellytron
    @cellytron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved the bit about all the phone receivers being slammed down with great force thousands of times 😂 Those things were truly built to withstand just about anything!

  • @billgreen1861
    @billgreen1861 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love watching these old movie reels with the young ones and they have some great questions sometimes. Thank you !

  • @robertgift6762
    @robertgift6762 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a detailed, informative film. Thank you.

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another fine film about the ancient technology of the telephone. ☎️

  • @Richard_K1630
    @Richard_K1630 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Good one, thank you.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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  • @deanchapman1824
    @deanchapman1824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    When we manufactured our own things.

  • @JohnMartin-cd1qm
    @JohnMartin-cd1qm 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "And then there was that nice lady in long distance that was so clever in locating Mr. Smith in Springfield, helping confirm her suspicions of his hussy secretary Janet."

    • @danam2584
      @danam2584 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was thinking the same thing!🤣

  • @Mash333
    @Mash333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We’ve lost the ability to manufacture many of the items in this film. 1950s America was an incredible place, scientifically and technologically

  • @Janotes
    @Janotes หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh, to return to those Halcyon days of the Bell System and the USA.🇺🇲

  • @MJK1965
    @MJK1965 ปีที่แล้ว

    🎶We've come a long ways, baby.🎶

  • @dglcomputers1498
    @dglcomputers1498 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The "all American" portrait of a telephone handset, with metric measurements!

  • @95blahblahhaha
    @95blahblahhaha 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mrs. Smith wants her telephone. Yet Mr. Me is forced by AT&T to have a phone I don't want because it comes with my cable and WiFi

    • @cellytron
      @cellytron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, just think of it this way…

      Actually I don’t have any way to really make it seem like a good deal to have a landline in 2024. Maybe if there’s some dire emergency and you aren’t able to charge a cellphone for several days?

  • @Madness832
    @Madness832 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yeah, in few years, when they're ready to replace Mrs. Smith's 302 w/ a 500 set. She'll be able to get a colored one, to match her decor!

    • @Janotes
      @Janotes หลายเดือนก่อน

      Judging by this film, Mrs Smith had to wait at least 10 years for a colored set. The Bell System introduced colored sets around 1954.

  • @cellytron
    @cellytron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    15:59 my goodness is that fellow handsome or what? He could be a movie star

  • @MisterPersuasion
    @MisterPersuasion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I've got a comment for you.
    I sit down to enjoy watching these old films and end up getting angry. I get angry because all I hear about at my Government job during meetings and reading our employee publications as well as our Union newsletter is, how oppressed women were in the past.
    Then I watch movies like these made in the 1940's and early 1950's, and I see more women working in technical, scientific, and engineering type jobs and wonder how all this "women are oppressed" crap got started?
    There are more women working in highly skilled jobs than there are men!

    • @dwightl5863
      @dwightl5863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Probably the "oppressed" part is that the women were making less money than their male counterparts. IMHO

    • @MisterPersuasion
      @MisterPersuasion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That wouldn't make any sense. In most of those scenes there were no men. The entire work force was female. Of course they would make less than their male supervisors as it should be.

    • @michaelrichardson1898
      @michaelrichardson1898 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fake news abc NBC msnbc liberal news media!

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      These dats..
      Years ago, they'd rather he close townhome. And be a Mrs.
      Too many men, arent around tools these days, unless in rural areas

  • @smadaf
    @smadaf ปีที่แล้ว

    What stadium appears in the first minute?

  • @rayfridley6649
    @rayfridley6649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is one of the old films that leave people thinking that Bell is the only telephone business organization. That's not the case. There are plenty of non-Bell telephone companies in service, but they are not mentioned, known as independents. Of course, their lines are interconnected.

    • @MyUserTubeAccount
      @MyUserTubeAccount 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      because they're ALL on "The Bell System" guy, and these videos have mentioned the independent companies plenty

  • @BaronVonShrapnel
    @BaronVonShrapnel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    About 15 seconds in and they already interrupted it with an ad!

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Phones had 2 digit central LETTERS with 5 digit numbers

    • @95blahblahhaha
      @95blahblahhaha 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It took me about 1½ mins before a commercial came smh😂😂😂

    • @95blahblahhaha
      @95blahblahhaha 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kathleenking47wtf are you talking about

  • @danam2584
    @danam2584 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder how much it was to rent that phone along with that long distance?

  • @MrWolfTickets
    @MrWolfTickets 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:25 oooohhhh!!!! F -bomb, Mrs Smith!!!

  • @mab7511
    @mab7511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow, so awesome, we sure did amazing things, it is so bad that us as a nation have let our appointed members we vote for, especially now have let us down from years before until extremely overboard now, wake up all, let's being us back to American pride! !

  • @TempoDrift1480
    @TempoDrift1480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You gotta crank up the volume. Can't hear for choot.

  • @jvolstad
    @jvolstad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My car warranty has expired?

  • @mattalbrecht7471
    @mattalbrecht7471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    And today, do you think you get instruction like this? Hell no. You are lucky to get one page, in chinese (never english)...